The Powder Major and the Colonial wench captured by the Red Coats escaped during the colonial battle re-enactments on Oct. 13 and 14, the highlights of the town’s celebration of its 250th celebration.

Albert Kunyuku Ngoma was a young Congolese corporal in the colonial Belgian army when he was forced to battle in WWII as far away as Myanmar. Now 97, Ngoma is one of only two surviving former members ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of ...

PORT ANGELES — Red-coated British troops will invade the North Olympic Peninsula this week to root out revolutionaries rebelling against the crown. The resulting “battles” are the centerpiece of the ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

Aside from the usually apocryphal stories of Pocahontas and the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving, most Americans draw a blank about their country’s colonial history before musket fire sounded at Lexington ...