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...
On the nineteenth day of August in the year we now call 14 AD, in a villa at Nola in Campania, the man who had...
On the night of August 16 into the 17th in the year 986, under a Balkan sky that one eyewitness swore had just dropped a...
On the morning of August 16, 1513, the fields and low hills around the village of Guinegate—today called Enguinegatte—in the French province of Artois looked...
On a warm August day in 1461, the final independent fragment of the Eastern Roman Empire did not fall in a blaze of heroic last...
On the morning of August 14, 1385, the plateau of São Jorge, a modest rise of land between Leiria and Alcobaça in central Portugal, looked...
