We all know what is said to be the oldest profession in the world, but there is probably one preceding it—the military profession, as the use of violence to resolve conflicts has existed since ...

The Union faces off against the Confederacy in the first battle of the war. Lincoln soon realizes this war won’t be as brief as he thought, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." ...

The First Battle of Panipat was fought on 20 April 1526 in the northern part of India, which was a very decisive battle between Zahir-ud-din Babur and Ibrahim Lodi, the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty.

On December 20, 1914, French chief of the general staff Joseph Joffre launched the second big Allied offensive on the Western Front, subsequently known as the First Battle of Champagne. According to ...

BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – Wednesday marks 165 years since the Battle of Black Jack, or what some would call the first battle of the Civil War, years before fighting began at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...