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 was a hard-fought independence — the day after the declaration, a coalition of Arab armies attacked and started what Israel calls its War of Independence. Israel emerged victorious ...

Edward III of England was forced to recognise Bruce's kingship and Scotland's independence. The war was won. Bruce retired to his house in Cardross near Loch Lomond and died a year later.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...