Pirates and the loot they plundered have long fascinated us. Stories like "Treasure Island" and movies like "Pirates of the ...

The loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse paved the way for Japanese forces to make a successful run on Malaya and ...

The Second World War claimed millions of lives and destroyed ... “The Canadian soldiers made a huge impression on the Dutch in terms of their smokes and their food and the chocolate bars.

Backed by manpower and materiel from the Kingdom of Naples, America went to war against ... Algerian pirates continued to attack American and European shipping until a joint Anglo-Dutch force ...

The research group Huygens Institute helped digitise the archive in a project subsidised by the Ministries of Justice, Education and Health. The Netherlands has published a database with the names ...

The story of the encounter between European colonists and Indigenous Americans is central to the history of New York—but how much of it is true? A depiction of 17th-century life in New Amsterdam ...

What led to the Anglo-Boer War? The first Europeans to settle in what is today South Africa were the Dutch in 1652. In 1795 and again in 1806, the British took over control of the Cape Colony.

Sam Edwards has previously received funding from the ESRC, the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the US Army Military History Institute, and the US Naval War College. Sam is a Trustee of The D-Day Story ...

On 27th August 1816, the coastal city and capital Algiers was bombarded by an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the command of Admiral ... including in the American War of Independence as well as the French ...

Æthelflæd was known as the "Lady of the Mercians," and became the first woman to rule an Anglo ... was also a pirate who fought alongside her troops against the French in the War of the Breton ...

Translations into Dutch ... What united these disparate pirates was the dream of making a fortune. Pirates could rake in 100 to 1,000 times the salary of an Anglo-American sailor.