November 20, 1910. Don Porfirio Diaz has ruled Mexico through rigged elections and military autocracy for 31 years, but today his rule is...

November 19, 1942. The German 6th Army is still grinding its way into Stalingrad when, to its north and south, the Soviet army deals the...

NOVEMBER 18: 208 AD. China, once united under the Han Dynasty for four centuries, has collapsed into turmoil as regional warlords vie for...

November 17, 1796. Outmatched and outnumbered, the French Revolutionary army stands triumphant at the bloody Battle of Arcole in northern...

November 16, 1532. There are no rules when God, gold and glory are all on the line. Francisco Pizarro’s tiny band of conquistadors have...

November 15, 1864. With the smoldering ruins of Atlanta behind them, the 60,000 men of General William T. Sherman’s Union army set out on...

November 14, 1965. A horde of Huey helicopters descends on Vietnam’s Central Highlands to unload their passengers. Stepping off the skids...

NOVEMBER 13: 421 BC. The last decade has been absolute hell on Athens and Sparta. They have waged a great war, the Peloponnesian War,...

November 12, 1942. Nobody is quite sure how Guadalcanal ended up as the most valuable piece of real estate in the Pacific, but here we...

November 11, 1914. On the fields of Flanders, the “Old Contemptibles” of the regular British Army and the young German volunteers of the...

November 10, 2004. The storm is breaking over Fallujah. American Marines and U.S. Army soldiers, along with Iraqi and British forces,...

November 9, 1923. The radical right is in shambles. What started as an attempt to take power has ended with government troops flooding...

November 8, 1917. “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” So said Vladimir Lenin, and today...

November 7, 1811. The invading aliens used their superior technology and overwhelming numbers to conquer and destroy their homes. Now...

November 6, 1917. Misery hasn’t even begun to describe the last three months on the Western Front. On this date, the Canadian Corps...

November 5, 1757. The small state of Prussia is in danger of being swamped on all sides. King Frederick II, the military mastermind...

November 4, 1791. Eight years after the end of the American Revolution, the infant nation faces a new foe. An expedition under the...

November 3, 1944. The sun rises on a disaster in the small German town of Schmidt. The 28th Infantry Division, Pennsylvania National...

November 2, 1963. After a day full of chaos in the streets of Saigon, the South Vietnamese military has overthrown President Ngo Dinh...

November 1, 1942. How do you solve a problem like Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox? What if you just held him in place 1000 miles from his...