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Throughout history, rivers have been vital arteries of transportation, commerce, and communication and, consequently, are key military areas in times of conflict or war. Brown …
Lord Keith, a Scottish admiral who rose to prominence serving His Majesty from 1761 to 1815, ended his career by overseeing Napoleon's surrender in 1815. Born George Keith …
Thousands of cargo ships sailed in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of World War II manned by young men who braved blockades, torpedoes, and bombings to deliver vital …
In the popular imagination, steamboats trigger romanticized images of the Mississippi River as portrayed in ""Huckleberry Finn"" and ""Tom Sawyer"", or the musical ""Show Boat"". …
Abraham Whipple (1733-1819) commanded insurgents who destroyed HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay and helped direct the successful invasion of the Bahamas. This little-known, yet …
Sunken treasure may seem like the stuff of legends and movies, but the seas still hold prizes to be found.HMS Fowey was a small ship, carrying 44 guns and over 200 men, captained …
These dramatic tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English for the first time from Oviedo’s sixteenth-century reports on the perils and disasters …
For decades, Portland, Maine, was the closest ice-free port to Europe. As such, it was key to the transport of Canadian wheat across the Atlantic, losing its prominence only after …
For millennia, Malta has always been considered a site of strategic importance. From the arrival of the Phoenicians through rule under Carthage, Rome, Sicilian Arabs, Normans, and …