As a major seat of power for the British during the colonial period, Madras occasionally got entangled in the conflicts between European powers. Madras had been a theatre in the many Anglo-French ...

He lived the rest of his life in Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera, and died in Geneva in 1983 ... with guests including Prince Jean-Christophe Napoleon, Countess Olympia of Arco-Zinneberg, Prince ...

Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, Hubris, and the Contemptible Betrayal of Paupers Passing Themselves off as ...

Dr Wynne Peyton was born in 1764 in Ireland. He made his trip to erstwhile Madras while serving the British Raj. Today, we ...

Tibet's Qamdo Bamba Airport is considered the world's lonelist airports in the world, although there are other contenders for ...

The past days are remarkable only because there is a deterioration or, better to say, a dying out of the brain activity of ...

Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

He killed until he died. He killed methodically ... In 1912 the young (33) terrorist visited Cracow, where Lenin, in exile, trying to build up a group of hard-core professional revolutionaries ...

Friday marked five years since Sir Keir Starmer became leader of the UK Labour Party. In August, it will be 80 years since George Orwell’s ...