When Michael Collins ordered the mass assassination of British intelligence agents, it was the "gamble of all gambles" that became the tipping point in the War of Independence ...

It’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries – the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” -- ...

Don Wildman hops across the Atlantic from American History Hit to Echoes of History to help Matt Lewis understand how two tiny towns became the spark that lit the fire of the American War of ...

Four years of protracted negotiations and bitter warfare passed between the declaration of Indonesian independence on 17 August ... their return to the archipelago as a mission to restore 'order and ...

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Mechanical Arts & Numismatics Senior Curator Erik Goldstein provided a brief history of research into the weapons used in the fight for American independence. This ...

The Second Scottish War of Independence began in 1332, only four years after the previous conflict had ended. Fought once more for the continued freedom of Scotland from English conquest, the war also ...

In 1933, when he was only 3, his family fled the Nazis in Germany for Israel, where Eden, born Rolf Sigmund Sostheim, grew up and fought in Israel’s War of Independence. Eden served in the ...

But I guess, everyone is affected in this war. Please God, next year we’ll be in a different time and it will be happier.” Around 100,000 people gathered at an Independence Day rally in Tel ...

A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed between the United Kingdom and negotiators from the Irish republican ...

The Kilmichael Ambush took place on November 28, 1920, during Ireland's War of Independence. On the 102nd anniversary of the seismic event, IrishCentral looks back at when veterans of the attack ...