Prussia Crushes Austria: Germany Redrawn at Koniggratz

Constantine I crushed the forces of his co-emperor Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople, forcing his rival to retreat behind the walls of Byzantium. This decisi…

Hugh Capet's coronation in 987 established the Capetian dynasty, which maintained an unbroken line of rule over France for eight centuries until the French Revo…

Eight years old. That's how young William was when his father died on pilgrimage and left him a duchy crawling with assassins. Three of his guardians were murde…

Mamluk forces captured King Louis IX of France at the Battle of Fariskur, delivering a humiliating blow to the Seventh Crusade and forcing France's monarch to r…

Diego de Almagro departed Cuzco with hundreds of Spanish soldiers and thousands of indigenous allies, aiming to claim the lands south of the Inca Empire for the…

Samuel de Champlain arrived with twenty-eight men to build a fur trading post where the St. Lawrence River narrowed. By spring, twenty were dead—scurvy, dysente…