Young George Washington came to Waterford, Pa., in 1753 to urge the French to abandon their frontier fort. The French stayed, ...

When the Peace of Paris, 1763 was signed, the British crown more than doubled the lands controlled in what would become the United States. From the western boundaries of the original thirteen colonies ...

Iraq, then Mesopotamia, had been the scene of the British Empire's largest operations outside of Europe in the early 20th century. The Commonwealth War Grave Commission , a charity with a remit of ...