Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to ...

Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military award for valor.

Historians have backed away from the claim that Ross sewed the first American flag in 1776 at her upholstery shop on Arch ... Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Washington and is staying at Blair House, the US president’s guest house. Located ...

Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

Five American-born men have earned the Victoria ... Reconnoitering from Euryalus on Sept. 5, 1864, Seeley pinpointed a stockade and while wounded by grapeshot, returned to give a full report ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

an American author, died at Alexandria ... of wounds received in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, July 27, 1864. 17. -- BOONE, Rev. WILLIAM J., D.D., Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal ...

Instead, leaders of the individual bands gathered there met under a flag ... American casualties but the death toll may have been higher at Whitestone than at Sand Creek in Colorado in 1864 ...

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