On the morning of September 6 in the year 394, in a narrow alpine valley that most maps still cannot agree how to name, the...
On the morning of 5 September 394, in a narrow, wind-scoured valley on the eastern edge of Italy, two Roman armies that no longer recognized...
On the last day of August in the year 929, a Saxon army under two counts arrived at a Slavic fortress called Lunkini—Lenzen to later...
On a Friday in late August 1071, on a dusty plain north of Lake Van in what is now eastern Turkey, a Roman emperor lost...
On the morning of August 25, 1630, in the rolling hills and paddy fields near the village of Randeniwela, not far from Wellawaya in the...
On a hot, dusty plain called Marj Dabiq—“the meadow of Dabiq”—about forty-four kilometers north of Aleppo in what is now northern Syria, two great Muslim...
On a sweltering late-summer day in 1595, in a stretch of Wallachian marshland that most travelers would have preferred to avoid, a force that should...
On the morning of 22 August 1138, on a stretch of open ground called Cowton Moor a couple of miles north of the little Yorkshire...
On the eighth day of the seventh lunar month in the tenth year of the Shaoxing era—corresponding to August 21, 1140 by the Western calendar—near...
Seventy-five years after the fighting stopped, a Byzantine historian named Leo the Deacon walked the plain near Anchialus on the Black Sea coast and still...
