Wars are not won by evacuation, but George Washington’s decision to evacuate Long Island in August 1776 ultimately saved the ...

National Parks have a duty to share the full, messy, complicated story of the founding of the country. As the nation turns ...

Indeed, the spirited “army” that began the war at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill in 1775 bore little resemblance to the ...

Never was aeronautical engineering more significant than in the six years of the second world war. A deadly technological ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped ...

The world watched in horror when seven Pakistani Taliban gunmen opened fire inside the Army Public School in Peshawar on14.

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on December 16. Check what happened today in history here.

On Dec. 15, 2010, sixteen Harriers took off from RAF Cottesmore for a farewell formation flight marking the end to 41 years of British Harrier operations.

Greece has one of NATO’s largest tank forces, although many of its vehicles date back to the Cold War and would be of limited ...

Scuttling is when a ship's crew intentionally sinks a ship themselves, and it happened a lot during WWII to ensure ships didn ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...