It was the decisive engagement of the Italian War from 1521 to 1526 between the Valois Kingdom of France and the Habsburg empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of Spain, Austria, the Ne...

When a fleet of 128 Habsburgs left Coruña in late May 1588, under Alonzo Guzmán, Duke of Medina, with the aim of escorting and transporting an army from Flanders (present-day Belgium) to invade Eng...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Poland suffered a series of dynastic crises during the reigns of Kings Vasa, Sigismund III and Władysław IV, and was involved in major conflicts with Russia, Sweden ...

The battle of Adrianople in 378 AD was fought between a Roman army led by Emperor Flavius Valens and a Germanic army - mainly of Ostrogoths and Visigoths - led by Fritigern. It took place in Adrian...

Religion, which in principle could be a pacifying human activity, was marked in the Medieval Age by clashes between two of the greatest, both in their early days, Islam and Christianity. In strateg...

The Tamoios Confederation or Tamoios War (comes from the Tupi word tamyîa or tamuîa, which means “ancestors”) took place between 1554 and 1567. In the 16th century, the Tupinambás occupied the coas...

The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct re...

The Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 is considered one of the most destructive wars in European history. It is estimated that between 4.5 and 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a direct re...

The War of the Spanish Succession, fought from July 1701 to September 1714, and triggered by the November 1700 death of Charles II of Spain, was a conflict for control of the Spanish Empire between...

The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict that took place between 1740 and 1748 and was fought primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic, and the M...

The Silesian Wars were three conflicts fought in the mid-18th century between Prussia (under King Frederick "the Great") and Habsburg Austria (under Archduchess Maria Theresa) for control of the Si...

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict between Great Britain and France for global preeminence. Britain, France and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with armies and fleets, ...

The Winter War was between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a ha...

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict between Great Britain and France for global power. Britain, France and Spain fought both in Europe and overseas with armies and fleets, while ...

The Saratoga Campaign of 1777 was an attempt by the British High Command for North America to gain military control of the strategically important Hudson River Valley during the American Revolution...