On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to replace the colonies' part-time militias with a full-time army – and ...

The remains of a British soldier killed fighting in WW1 have been laid to rest – 108 years after his death. Private John Tame was 26 when he died at the Battle of Langemarck in August 1917.

The beleaguered Conservatives need to summon the resolve of outnumbered British Empire soldiers who fought off the Zulu army, according to senior Tory Sir Geoffrey Cox. The former Attorney General ...

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission honors the memory of fallen members of the former British Empire around the world. In France, 400 of the institution's employees watch over the resting ...

A defamation case filed against Sankaran Nair helped spotlight the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same Kinsey Gidick An 1812 illustration of a private from the ...

How an act of simple defiance in a remote Himalayan outpost by Irish soldiers rocked the British Empire and inspired Indian Independence. In June 1920 members of the 1st Battalion Connaught ...

T he British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, ... while foot-soldiers such as George Orwell found themselves uneasy with the violence of colonial rule.

The British Army has shrunk to its lowest level since the early 1800s. Years of relentless budget cutbacks have left it with just 73,000 active-duty soldiers.That's a far cry from the Chinese army ...

Instead, on D-Day, American soldiers joined by British soldiers and allies from nearly a dozen countries embarked on a treacherous voyage from the seat of the British empire to the shores of the ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.