Who were the two sides of the civil war? Why was it fought in two phases? And who eventually came out on top? Emma Slattery Williams shares a quick guide on the 20th-century conflict that ripped a nation apart and led to the formation of the Republic of China.
As world trade burgeoned in the age of colonial expansion, valuable cargoes were transported across the world s oceans, providing vast opportunity for piracy on the seas. Who were the most famous pirates, and who were the worst? And were there any female pirates? Here are 14 of history s most despicable pirates, who plundered the seas from the ports of the American colonies to the Indian Ocean…
Emma Slattery Williams shares a quick guide to the 18th-century conflict known as the Seven Years War, in the US better known as the French and Indian War. Who fought in it? And how long did it really last?
On 2 May 1946, several prisoners held at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary enacted a plan to escape the island prison. The ensuing 48-hour siege was the most violent in the prison's history, resulting in five deaths and more than a dozen injured. Emma Slattery Williams takes up the tale of the incident later dubbed the 'battle of Alcatraz'.