From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The War of 1812, often overlooked in American history, was sparked by grievances against Great Britain, including impressment of American sailors and British occupation of forts. Despite initial ...

In this thousand-page tour de force, researched in over a dozen languages with 189 pages of notes, the exceptionally talented Georgian-American ... the Napoleonic wars had global significance ...

This Christmas Eve marks an American bicentennial—the ... vicious politics, sectional division, and martial ineptitude of the war, and instead celebrated an imagined unity, virtue, right ...

Hidden in the haze at the bottom of the valley below the Heights were two French divisions — 17,000 men. Napoleon gave the order to advance: "One sharp blow," he said, "and the war's over!" ...

In the records, you will find lists of those captured by the British during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and War of 1812 in America. There are American, French and even some Irish prisoners.

The Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was the deadliest conflict in American history. It erupted over deeply entrenched divisions over slavery, states’ rights and the preservation of the Union.