February 14, 1797. A small British fleet confronts a much larger Spanish fleet off the coast of Portugal. As it looks like the Spanish...

February 13, 1951. One American infantry regiment and a French battalion stand in the way of the Chinese 39th Army sweeping south down...

Black History Month - February 12, 1946. A decorated war veteran is beaten within an inch of his life by a gang of assailants. At the...

February 11, 1945. The three most powerful men in the world part for the last time. The Yalta Conference is over, and Franklin D....

February 10, 1258. The Mongols approach Baghdad. The greatest center of learning, culture, and Muslim civilization in the world faces its...

In retrospect, I really should have done more on this war. February 9, 1904. The Japanese fleet launches a surprise attack on its Western...

February 8, 1807. Near the town of Eylau, in the midst of a raging blizzard, Napoleon and his Grande Armee duke it out with the armies of...

Black History Month Post: February 7, 1968. The North Vietnamese 24th Regiment, with the support of at least 22 tanks, attacks the Allied...

February 6, 1778. Benjamin Franklin, United States commissioner to France, signs a treaty of alliance with the ministers of King Louis...

Black History Month Post: February 5, 1945. The 92nd Infantry Division, the segregated "Buffalo Soldier" division, attacks German forces...

February 4, 1703. Forty-six men commit ritual suicide on a snowy night in the mountains. They are missing one from their number, pardoned...

February 3, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur's American troops enter the outskirts of Manila, capital of the Philippines...but the city's...

February 2, 1943. Red Army troops trudge in through snow and rubble to accept the surrender of General Strecker, the commander of the...

February 1, 1979. A bearded man with regal bearing steps off an Air France flight into the heart of a country torn by revolution. With...

January 31, 1944. Three U.S. Army Ranger battalions are the spearhead for a major Allied breakout attempt from the Anzio bridgehead on...

When I wrote this, I had relied mainly on earlier - mainly American-based - sources about the Vietnam War. I was quite mistaken. The Tet...

I will be the first to admit that Islam and its theology is a major gap in my knowledge. I believe the following to be accurate, although...

January 28, 1077. A bedraggled man wearing a hair shirt kneels barefoot in front of a castle in the Italian Alps. He waits three days in...

January 27, 1945. The Soviet Red Army’s 322nd Rifle Division arrives at the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Golgotha of the Twentieth...

January 26, 1945. Lieutenant Audie Murphy performs the action that will merit the Medal of Honor, capping off a string of frankly...