The Battle of Crécy in 1346 marked a turning point in medieval warfare and England’s rise as a military force. Heavily outnumbered, the English leveraged disciplined tactics, strong defensive ...

The French steam-sloop Catinat ... which was about going to France: the screw war transports Finistere, Eure, Rhone, and the tender Tartare. The two line-of-battle battle ships and the three ...

Divine voices guided a young girl to lead the French against the English. Burned as a heretic in 1431, the Maid of Orléans was both shaped and destroyed by the religious fervor and politics.

He told the Times newspaper, “You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after world war two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone and a British zone.” Meanwhile ...