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The Battle of Kings Mountain (7 October 1780) was a significant battle of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), fought in the backcountry of South Carolina between large parties of Patriot and Loyalist militias. The battle exemplified...

Painting depicting Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc. Painted by John Everett Millais in 1865, oil on canvas.

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was a long and bitter conflict fought between Great Britain and its thirteen North American colonies over the Americans' liberties and, eventually, for the independence of the United States. The...

Miniature of Major Patrick Ferguson by an unknown artist, c. 1774-1777. Private collection.

The death of Major Patrick Ferguson during the Battle of Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780. Engraving after Alonzo Chappel, 1863. Anne S. K. Brown Collection at Brown University.

Rollo (l. c.860-c.930 CE, r. 911-927 CE) was a Viking chieftain who became the founder and first ruler of the region of Normandy. He converted to Christianity as part of a deal with the Frankish king Charles the Simple (893-923 CE) in 911...

The medieval sources on the discovery and settlement of Iceland frequently refer to the explorers as “Vikings” but, technically, they were not. The term “Viking” applies only to Scandinavian raiders, not to Scandinavians generally. Some of...

Throughout the 9th century CE, Viking raids on the region of Francia (roughly modern-day France) increased in frequency, destabilizing the region, and terrorizing the populace. The raids seem to have been inspired by the death of the Holy...

Representatives of the Five Civilized Tribes: (clockwise from upper left) Sequoyah of the Cherokee, Pushmataha of the Choctaw, Selecta of the Muscogee Creek, Osceola of the Seminole, and a typical Chickasaw warrior. Image and description...

A painting portraying the capture of Atahualpa (r. 1532-33), the Inca emperor, by the Spanish conquistador and adventurer Francisco Pizarro on 16 November 1532. This capture was considered to be the first step of the long conquest of the...