March 25, 1821. Metropolitan Germanos of Patras, one of the leading Orthodox clergymen in Greece, raises the banner of Revolution along...

March 24, 1794. Tadeusz Kosciuszko stands in the old town square of Krakow, Poland and proclaims a general Polish uprising against the...

March 23, 1901. With the aid of local informants, American troops launch a daring raid into the mountains and finally capture their High...

March 22, 1739. The last great central Asian conqueror, Nader Shah, leads his Persian army into the center of Delhi. At a prearranged...

March 21, 1944. Women’s History Month. Two agents arrive by cover of night on the coast of France. One is a woman who limps off the tiny...

March 20, 2005. Women’s History Month. To Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester of the Kentucky National Guard, it is a normal day. A military...

March 19, 1962. With the signing of the Evian Accords in France, the great agony of the Algerian War of Independence comes to an end. The...

March 18, 1871. An attempt by the French Army to seize cannons at the fortress of Montmartre in Paris. When they run into resistance from...

March 17, 1781. General Charles Cornwallis considers his options. Stuck in enemy country and facing a stronger Rebel army, he can...

March 16, 1968. Something “dark and bloody” happens in the chaos of the Vietnam War. C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment...

March 15, 1783. The United States has just been born, and already it faces a crisis. Officers of the Continental Army, furious at...

March 14, 1757. An Admiral of the British Royal Navy faces execution on board the HMS Monarch. His crime? “Failing to do his utmost” –...

March 13, 1954. The French fortress at Dien Bien Phu in central Indochina is isolated and under attack. The Viet Minh, the local...

March 12, 2006. A US Army patrol in Yusufiyah, Iraq come to investigate reports of an alleged terrorist attack that butchered a whole...

March 11, 1805. Women’s History Month: On this day in Congress, the Founding Fathers stopped bickering over taxes and the Barbary War...

March 10, 241 BC. After 23 years of war, the first great war between Rome and Carthage is about to come to its conclusion. As two great...

March 9, 1862. A low, lurking shape steams out of Norfolk Navy Yard to finish off its damaged opponents from the previous day's battle....

March 8, 1917. A group of meetings and rallies in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia, intended for International Women's Day, combine...

March 7, 1945 - the last days of World War II. Allied scouts looking for a crossing site over the Rhine River crest a hill and are...

March 6, 1836. In the early morning hours, several columns of men leave their camps under covers of darkness and converge on a small...