“Let’s stick to the facts!” Charles XII reigned as King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718, and he lived in Turkey from 1709 to 1714 during the Great Northern War, in which Russia challenged Swede ...

We allude to the great cavalry force which has been concentrating and outfitting at Eastport, a town on the Tennessee River, and situated in Northern ... have experienced war upon many a field ...

By fighting on, he condemned Sweden’s empire to dismemberment. None of this was obvious at first. The early years of the Great Northern War of 1700-21 were a period of Swedish triumph ...

In war, ice is often treacherous, as the Dutch learned when French cavalry seized a fleet by riding over the frozen Niewediep ...