The Prideaux loader was one of several early such devices patented and manufactured as early as 1893, but neither it nor any competitor saw much demand until the outbreak of World War One. At that ...

Today marks a moment to reflect on the sacrifice of millions of young servicemen, many still just boys, who lost their lives in the two world wars, as well as men and women who have died in other ...

That rate of fire, combined with good marksmanship, turned ordinary soldiers into surprisingly effective long-range killers.

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Whenever Paul Dobbyn would visit his grandfather Henry’s East Toowoomba home as a child, he would get caught up staring at a ...

LONDON -- On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier ...

Straddling Italy and Austria, the Dolomite Mountains blend three languages, two identities and one breathtaking landscape – but their delicate balance is being tested ...

The Reverend Mark Nam's interest in the Chinese Labour Corps was stirred by the Meridian Society's talk A British-Chinese vicar is leading an effort to get the contribution of 140,000 Chinese ...

The plaster logs were designed to smuggle arms and ammunition into enemy territory. The arms or ammo were packed into cardboard containers, and sealed to protect the contents from the damp. The sealed ...

Archaeologists working near upstate New York’s Lake George have uncovered ruins from a partially constructed British fort that was once planned to be their largest in North America. Due to its key ...

UPDATE (February 4, 2013): This story from ARCHAEOLOGY's January/February 2013 issue discusses the excavation of a site known as Greyfriars, under a Liecester parking lot, and the possibility that ...