Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

A compromise was reached and Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. It represented the first large group of Canadian soldiers to serve overseas.

Britain only had a small, though well-trained regular army. The Second Boer War lasted three years and the British needed to enlist more recruits. Many British men volunteered. During the war ...

Relentlessly, history rolls on and events that were once within reach of human memory can no longer be recalled.

used by the British in the Boer War and the First World War, and by several armed forces as an emergency back-up cipher in the Second World War. When Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-109 was sunk by a ...