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Yockelson delivers a comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force ...
Canning’s “whom” most definitely included the Americans. The British noted that the American merchant marine, as one of the few neutral parties left in the game, was doing rather well out of ...
As the British prepared for their final evacuation, the Americans demanded the return of American property, including runaway slaves, under the terms of the peace treaty. Sir Guy Carleton ...
Ever wondered what it was like inside a WW1 trench, tank, or WWII’s legendary Lancaster Bomber? These stunning cross-sections ...
The American settlers complained bitterly to him about their vulnerability to Indian attacks and their treatment by the British, and asked for military protection. It wasn’t long before they ...
Originally settled by Loyalists from New York, and followed by much larger numbers of land seekers from New England, this was a potentially volatile borderland during British-American conflicts. J.I.
Boylston, an American nurse serving at a British Army base hospital near the Western Front in 1918, had been running between wards of wounded patients that night, trying to calm their nerves ...
The British futurist writer and social commentator H.G. Wells invented the phrase. He predicted that WWI would be the last ... George Santayana, 1922 The Spanish-American philosopher said ...
In the first five hours of the great Spring Offensive over a million shells were fired into British lines ... States had agreed to enter the War; now American troops had at last arrived and ...
Field Director, American Red Cross D-Day. 80 years later, it brings up strong feelings and, for some, strong memories. D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. On 6 June 1944, over 150,000 ...