In the year 1204, the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was sacked by an army of Crusaders from Western...

In 1198, Pope Innocent III called for a new Crusade to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims. Many European knights and nobles answered...

The Battle of Marston Moor took place on July 2, 1644. Two years after the outbreak of civil war in England, King Charles I was on the...

The Battle of Sedgemoor was the last decisive engagement between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth during the...

This famous naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar...

The Battle of Bannockburn took place on 23 and 24 June 1314 and was a victory of the army of Robert the Bruce over the army of King...

On 22nd January 1879, eleven days after the British invaded the sovereign kingdom of KwaZulu in southern Africa, a Zulu force of some...

The Vestal Virgins were an order of Priestesses that were at the centre of Rome’s religious community for over a thousand years. They...

In November 1095, Pope Urban the Second addressed a large gathering of French clergy and noblemen at the Council of Clermont in Auvergne,...

Off the coast of North Wales in the UK, lies a tiny island with an extraordinary story to tell. A story of pilgrimage throughout the ages...

On the18th June 1815, during the Napoleonic wars, a coalition of armies led by The Duke of Wellington faced the forces of Napoleon near...

In 1415, King Henry V of England resumed hostilities against the French in what would eventually become known as the 100-years war. Over...

Julius Caesar first came to Britain in 55BC but decided not to invade. For the following ninety-eight years, or so, the Empire traded...

For hundreds of years, Viking warriors had sailed across the sea to raid and settle along the coastline of England. By the middle of the...

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is arguably the most defining battle in English history, and, as a result of the Norman victory, there...