As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

Instead, the battle demonstrated France’s determination to resist and fight back over the span of 303 days of fighting – one of the longest battles not just of the Great War but in recorded ...

There’s a good variety to the maps, each based on the actual topography of the battlefields of Verdun, the Somme, Champagne and so on.

World War I's Battle of Verdun began with a German artillery attack on French positions on this day in history, Feb. 21, 1916. It's considered the longest battle in modern warfare.

In 1916 the battlefield lay outside the town, in orchards and woods above Verdun; Bakhmut is an urban battle, fought amid blocks of apartment buildings and wide roads.

The remains of more than 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers, fallen on the Verdun battlefield, are inside the ossuary, below our feet. Their bones and skulls are distinguishable from outside, ...

An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

"It's like Verdun out there," said Ivan, an ambulance driver waiting on a roadside outside the battered industrial city in the eastern Donetsk region.