August 12, 1920. Eastern Europe swings in the balance as the Red Army comes boiling out from Russia, intent on bringing the Russian...

AUGUST 11 - 490 BC. A Persian expeditionary force has just landed on the coast of Greece, and all that stands in its way is a ragtag...

August 10, 1864. South America is in political upheaval, drink. Uruguay is in the middle of a civil war, and on this day, Brazil...

August 9, 48 BC. The last days of the Republic are here. Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, the two greatest warlords the city of Rome has...

August 8, 1918. After four years, the tide is finally about to turn on the Western Front. Behind a hurricane artillery bombardment east...

August 7, 1819. After nine years in the Latin American struggle for independence from Spain, Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar is about to turn...

August 6, 1945. It has been 75 years today since the world’s first nuclear weapon was dropped on Hiroshima. Today, I’m going to take...

August 5, 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm’s Imperial German army has crashed across the Belgian border. Their mission: capture Paris in six weeks....

August 4, 1265. Welcome to Medieval England, where when there isn’t a foreign war, the nobles start their own just to keep busy. The...

August 3, 1944. A combined American, British and Chinese task force finally captures the town of Mytikyina in northern Burma after a...

August 2, 216 BC. The Roman Republic is ready to put an end to Hannibal and his invading army once and for all. They have assembled the...

August 1, 1798. In the headwaters of the Nile, a French fleet rests at anchor, having just delivered young General Napoleon Bonaparte and...

July 31, 1913. After negotiations in Bucharest, the shooting stops in Southeast Europe as the Second Balkan War comes to a close. The...

July 30, 1864. A massive explosion sends an entire Confederate brigade into the air, rupturing the Rebel lines outside Petersburg,...

July 29, 1014. After almost three centuries of conflict, Byzantine Emperor Basil II inflicts a crippling defeat on the Bulgarian Empire...

July 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. The First World War has begun. So, why did World War I happen? That’s the question...

JULY 27 - 102 BC. After a string of terrible Roman defeats, Gaius Marius and his new model Roman army confront a massive host of Germanic...

July 26, 1758. The French fortress of Louisbourg, the linchpin of Canada’s defenses, falls to the British armies of Jeffrey Amherst and...

July 25, 1944. Preceded by the rolling thunder of Allied air power, an American corps smashes through the German lines in Normandy. Omar...

July 24, 1943. At 00:57 hours, the first Allied bombs fall on the city of Hamburg, marking the beginning of Operation Gomorrah. Over the...