On the morning of 14 October 1322, the air above the Hambleton Hills in Yorkshire carried the smell of wet heather, horse sweat, and the...
On the morning of October 13 in the year 645, the greatest military commander the Tang dynasty had yet produced stood below the walls of...
On the evening of the sixteenth day of the month Tašrītu in the seventeenth year of Nabonidus—October 12, 539 BC by the Julian calendar—the Euphrates...
At one o’clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 8 October 1480, the Ugra River stopped being a boundary and became a weapon. The river...
Before first light on Wednesday, October 9, 1861, Santa Rosa Island smelled like salt, pine resin, and wet canvas. The island is a long, thin...
On the afternoon of Saturday, 7 October 1780, the rain finally quit over a wooded spur on the border of the two Carolinas. The place...
Picture the Rhône in early October, wide, cold, and the color of wet slate, sliding past a Gallic market town the Romans called Arausio and...
Before sunrise on Wednesday, October 5, 1864, the Western and Atlantic Railroad disappeared into the earth. North of the little Georgia depot called Allatoona, the...
Picture a freshwater sea the color of weak tea, low from a summer that forgot to rain. Lake Poyang, in what is now Jiangxi, is...
How a Castle That Promised to Open on a Feast Day, an English Captain Who Kept One Battalion Uncommitted, a Breton Claimant Who Died Calling...
