In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an ambitious campaign to seize Egypt and threaten British interests in India, but one ...

Historians have debunked many of the popular theories surrounding the tune's creation. Still, its legacy as a patriotic ...

More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution. The Siege of Boston was his first ...

The Revolutionary War’s most underrated leader Few figures embody this international spirit more fully than the Marquis de ...

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Empress Eugénie’s crown was left lying on the sidewalk after the Louvre Museum heist in October. The museum has now released pictures of the damage.

Empress Eugénie’s crown was left lying on the sidewalk after the Louvre Museum heist in October. The museum has now released ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793. A race to secure energy for artificial intelligence (AI) is underway. AI data centers already consume over 50% more electricity than they did just four ...

As a scandalous image of shameless masculine power and sensual strength, Thomas Lawrence’s spectacular painting Satan Summoning his Legions seemed to be a subversive advertisement for the libertine ...

Most people think of revolution as a violent overturning of political institutions. Parisians storming the Bastille on July 14, 1789, became a model of popular action later adopted, in 1917, by the ...