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Most people think about the Royal Navy in World War II they tend to concentrate upon the British efforts to defeat the U boats rather than the Royal Navy's own force.

When the Allies occupied the German colony of New Guinea at the opening of WW I a German officer led a four-year expedition to retain the island, surrendering in 1919.

Louis Riel returns from exile in Montana to assist the First Nations and Métis over their land rights.

After the fall of the Alamo, the Battle of San Jacinto clinched freedom for the newly formed Republic of Texas.

On May 5 many U.S. cities celebrate Cinco de Mayo with music, dancing and Mexican food. The day commemorates the 1862 victory of Mexico in a battle with the French.

A lever consists of a fulcrum, an effort, and a load - but levers can work in three different ways.

This week's outlaws, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce, come from late 13th and early 14th century Scotland.

General George Armstrong Custer's battle plan for the Battle of the Little Bighorn fought on the 25th June 1876 was deeply flawed

The biological world can often seem like an arbitrary place, but at its heart it is governed by the laws of physics.

Trebbia was the first all-out engagement between Rome and Carthage during the Second Punic War. Using an ambush which played to the personality of the Roman general.

The Battle of York reversed a year's worth of disappointment for the American cause in the War of 1812 but may have led to the burning of Washington later in the war.

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 started with the last stand of a force of Belgian UN Peacekeepers in Kigali who fought to the end in an impossible situation.

The evolution of castle defense began in the 9th Century and saw dramatic improvement coming out of the Crusader movement, creating impregnable fortifications.

Daly fought the Boxers in China, the Cacos in Haiti, served aboard numerous ships, fought in the "Bananna wars", and fought the Germans in WWI at Belleau Woods.

In the spring of 1862 the Confederacy's incursion into the New Mexico Territory had reached its high point.

While Hernán Cortés is regarded as the conqueror of the mighty Aztec Empire, former illiterate pig-farmer Francisco Pizarro is credited with wiping out the Inca Empire.

Microtrends, a new book by pollster Mark J. Penn, identifies permissive parents as one of today's parenting trends that could affect the future.

By the end of the First World War it was clear that Royal Flying Corps training methods and airplanes had killed more pilots than combat with the Germans over France.

General Robert E. Lee quickly realized that Confederate President Jefferson Davis' desire for a defensive strategy was impractical considering the North's economic power.

A turning point for the Americans, Saratoga represented everything that was wrong in the British command structure during the American Revolutionary War.

During the Cold War the Cuban Navy grew fat on Russian generosity but today the Navy is weak and a shadow of its former self. What future is there for the Cuban Navy?

The survivors of the SMS Koingsberg sinking in Africa in 1915 went on to fight for the rest of the war as jungle foot infantry

In physics work has a very specific definition that is different from the everyday definition. A force must be applied over a distance.

Atahualpa, mighty sun-god emperor of the Incas and commander of a huge army, was no match for the crafty foul play of Francisco Pizarro and a couple hundred Spaniards.

After Bull Run, the focus of operations turned to securing the west, particularly Missouri, while McClellan trained the soon-to-be famous Army of the Potomac.

As prince, king and finally emperor he brought his country out of the middle ages and into the 20th Century.

For those American patriots who believed that Divine Providence favored their cause, the unlikely victory at Yorktown, Virginia provided proof for the ages.

German principalities united with Prussia by Otto Von Bismarck were a fuse in a powder keg that Balkan volatility ignited when the unwise Kaiser Wilhelm II took control.

A description of the Battle of Blore Heath, an important battle fought between the armies of Lancaster and York in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.

In the summer of 1832, Black Hawk once again returned to Illinois to build alliances with neutral tribes.

Never stronger than six hundred men, they fought as grey coated leathernecks to the honor of the Corps.

Centered in the frozen wind-swept White Sea region, a small force of White troops held out against the Reds with the help of a few thousand Interventionist troops.

Until the late 19th Century, Germany was a mass of small independent states - until, that is, they were united under the leadership of ambitious, warlike Prussia.

In 1842, only 300 Seminole remained in Florida to be pushed the fringe of habitable land. In 1855, Holata Micco emerged and fought from the Everglades.

With a daring climb up steep cliffs, the British surprised the French and took control of Quebec in one of the largest battles of the French and Indian War.

Meant to bridge the gap between carriers and surface ships, the old battleships Ise and Hyuga of the Japanese Navy underwent an odd conversion