Just after dusk on November 28th, 1920, outside of the town of Kilmichael, County Cork, Ireland, Thirty six local IRA volunteers...

Patrick Pearse, his brother Willie, and his sisters Margaret and Mary Brigid were born at 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, the street...

The Halifax Explosion was a maritime disaster in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which happened on the morning of 6 December 1917. The...

In February 1940, the German tanker Altmark was returning to Germany with 299 British merchant sailors on board These were prisoners of...

"The Time The US and Great Britain planned a war against each other." Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan Red was one of the color-coded...

The German raider Admiral Graf Spee had been at sea at the start of the Second World War in September 1939, and had sunk several...