Stono Rebellion: Largest Colonial Slave Uprising

Arminius, a Germanic chieftain who had served as an auxiliary officer in the Roman army, led three Roman legions under Publius Quinctilius Varus into a dense fo…

Constantine I died leaving three sons and an empire — and within weeks, every male relative who might compete with those sons was massacred. The soldiers who di…

Belisarius had 15,000 soldiers and was sailing against the Vandal Kingdom of North Africa, which had sacked Rome 80 years earlier. His commanding officer, the E…

Olaf Tryggvason leaped into the Baltic Sea to escape capture after his fleet fell to a coalition of Scandinavian kings at the Battle of Svolder. This defeat end…

William Rufus seized the English throne following his father’s death, securing his coronation at Westminster Abbey while his elder brother Robert Curthose remai…

Yelü Dashi was supposed to be finished. He'd fled the collapse of the Liao Dynasty with a few hundred followers and ridden west across Central Asia until he fou…