On the morning of August 9, 378, the fifth of the Ides of August by the Roman calendar, Emperor Valens ordered his standards forward from...
On a late-summer day in the eighth month of 685 BC, specifically the Gengshen day that corresponds to August 8 in the Gregorian reckoning, two...
On a summer day in the Thessalian plain near the modest town of Crannon, in August 322 BC, two armies faced each other under a...
On the morning of August 5, 1864, the waters at the mouth of Mobile Bay in Alabama looked deceptively calm under a bright summer sky....
On the morning of August 4, 1265, in the green loop of the River Avon just north of the abbey town of Evesham in Worcestershire,...
On a warm summer day in the year 881, in a stretch of northern French countryside that most modern maps barely bother to name, a...
On a blistering August morning in 216 BC, near a nondescript grain depot called Cannae in the flat, sun-scorched plains of Apulia in southeastern Italy,...
On a clear summer morning in the year 1030, in a valley called Verdalen in what is now central Norway, two armies faced each other...
On a blistering Friday in the high summer of 1402, the Çubuk plain northeast of Ankara baked under a sky the color of hammered brass....
On a hot July day in 1302, in a place most modern maps cannot even pinpoint with certainty, a few thousand horsemen who still smelled...
