Military history

The taking of Jerusalem by the Crusader

The First Crusade: your ultimate guide

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A fifteenth century manuscript illustration showing the Knights Templar being burned in the presence of King Philip IV of France.

Templars on trial: why were the Knights accused of such heinous crimes? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Robert the Bruce addresses his troops ahead of Bannockburn in a 20th-century engraving.

Why is the battle of Bannockburn remembered as Scotland’s greatest victory?

3 myths surrounding the Battle of Britain.

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Overwhelming odds and inevitable invasions: 3 myths surrounding the Battle of Britain

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A relief on Trajan's Column shows Roman troops crossing the Danube during the war against the Dacians. Victory was the framework upon which Pax Romana was built (Photo by akg-images/Erich Lessing)

The Pax Romana: how the Romans maintained peace at the point of a sword . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Men of the 23rd US Infantry in France, 1918. The Western Front w ould not have even come into existence had the Schlieffen Plan been executed successfully. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What if… The Schlieffen plan had been successful? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon

What should we make of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon?

A c1943 photograph of USS Indianapolis. Built in New Jersey, the Portland-class heavy cruiser was launched in 1931 (Photo by US Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images)

Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS Indianapolis

A view of the devastation caused by the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan on 6 August 1945, a bombed-out building in the foreground

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What happened to Hiroshima after it was bombed in 1945? How many people died?

J Robert Oppenheimer (left), and Cillian Murphy

Oppenheimer: the real history of the ‘father of the atomic bomb’

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Pod Kai Bird WL

Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The city of Hiroshima, Japan, a few days after the first atom bomb is dropped in August 1945. This clearly demonstrated the apocalyptic potential of the new weapon (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

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The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb

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Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the ‘she-wolf’ queen who wouldn’t go quietly . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Rachel Chrastil WL

The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.