October 11. 1206 AD. The feuding nomadic tribes of northern Asia have been forcibly unified under a single leader. The chieftains pledge...

October 10, 732. The Dark Ages have never looked darker for a nascent Kingdom of the Franks. Subjected to heavy raids by invading Arabs,...

October 9. 336 BC. King Philip II of Macedon, the most powerful man in Ancient Greece, is assassinated during his daughter's wedding. No...

October 8, 1918. The American Expeditionary Force is slugging its way north through the Argonne Forest in France, and World War I is...

Note: After further research, I may have been a bit too harsh to George Grenville in this post. But only a bit. October 7, 1777. The...

October 6, 1973. Israel has been bitten by victory disease. Confident in its supremacy over the Arab nations that surround them, the IDF...

October 5, 1877. The Nez Perce are cornered. Stripped of their ancestral lands and hunted down by the United States Army, they have led...

October 4, 1853. If they’d all just minded their business, this never would have happened. A religious dispute in Palestine blossoms into...

October 3, 1993. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The United States has deployed forces to Somalia to restore order to a fractured...

October 2, 1944. Shooting finally ceases in the smoking ruins of Warsaw. After 63 days of bitter fighting, massacres, and terror, the...

October 1, 1860. Five months ago, the revolutionary leader Giuseppe Garibaldi landed on the shores of Sicily with only a thousand men....

SEPTEMBER 30 - Summer 1848. To the oppressed classes of Europe, everything seems possible. The French have overthrown their last King,...

September 29, 1848. The Hungarians have risen up, declaring themselves independent of the Habsburg Empire after 300 years. This wouldn’t...

SEPTEMBER 28. 48 BC. The triumphant Julius Caesar has defeated his major foe – Pompey – on the plains of Pharsalus. Pursuing his beaten...

September 27, 1942. With eleven divisions abreast, the German 6th Army launches its second massive assault on the beleaguered city of...

September 26, 1918. After 150 years, the Americans have arrived to repay their debt to France for their aid in the Revolution. On this...

September 25, 1944. Under the cover of darkness, the remnants of the British 1st Airborne Division slip across the Rhine River. Behind...

September 24, 1877. Progress always leaves someone behind. As Japan enters the modern age, the old feudal nobility – the samurai – launch...

SEPTEMBER 23. 480 BC. Leonidas and his 300 are dead. Athens is gone, destroyed by the Persians, and King Xerxes has made his throne atop...

September 22, 1980. Saddam Hussein wants a short, victorious war. He plans to dive into this weaker country, seize some territory that...