The recent renaming of Port Blair to Sri Vijaya Puram serves as a reminder that centuries ago, the island was a part of Chola ...

He became a colonel in the British army and later lived in Saint John, N.B., where he engaged in business for four years. He then returned to England, where he died in 1801. In 1788, Canada made its ...

On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the ...

I don’t need to tell anyone who reads my newsletter that when the Constitution was ratified in 1788, women weren’t allowed ... the notion of the divine right of kings and the military might of the ...

In 1786, the young United States of America was nearly ripped apart by Shays’ Rebellion. Angry farmers suffering from debt ...

After he left Poland, Lucy and Eliza were cared for by the Czartoryski family. Eliza married Arthur Bourne White (1788–1856) and had a son, Sir William Arthur White (1824–1891), who later became a ...

What a ripe time for a revival of Our Country’s Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s 1788-set drama about a colony of British convicts in Australia ... underneath old military jackets, the soldiers wear ...

Fighting continued until 1781 when the British were defeated by Americans and French ... loss badly and considered abdication before facing the political and military realities. 1788 he suffered his ...

Dr Piggin said the letter announcing New South Wales was to be settled by convicts was signed by Lord Sydney, British Home Secretary ... Sydney decreed the new colony was not to be a military prison, ...

Support for Ukrainian soldiers "constrains" the British Army's ability to train its own troops, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said. An investigation by the NAO into the UK's military support ...

The British Army is consulting military families amid concern they could be priced out of private schools by VAT changes, The Telegraph can reveal. The Government intends to hit private schools ...