Category: September

Europe 1830

Belgian Revolution

The overthrow of King Charles X in France in...

North America 1842

Texas Incursions

Conflict with the Comanche did not stop Texas...

Europe 1844

Franco-Moroccan War

By 1844, the French had consolidated their...

North America 1847

Battle for Mexico City

Mexican troops rushed south to Veracruz but...

North America 1850

Compromise of 1850

With its population booming, California wanted...

the Arctic 1855

Crimean War in the Arctic

Other nations were soon to follow the United...

North America 1858

Mexican Reform War

In Mexico, the antagonism between the...

North America 1862

Battle of Antietam

Having established naval supremacy, Union...

Europe 1870

Outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War

In 1870 a Prussian prince accepted the Spanish...

Europe 1870

Siege of Paris

With the defeat at Sedan, Napoleon III was...

Europe 1898

Britain's Splendid Isolation

At the close of the Nineteenth Century,...

Asia Pacific 1901

Boxer Protocol

In August 1900, the Allies captured Peking,...

Northern Eurasia 1905

1905 Revolution

Dissatisfaction with the Tsarist government...

Asia Pacific 1905

Russo-Japanese War

Japan swiftly overran Korea and southern...

Sub-Saharan Africa 1905

Maji Maji Rebellion

In 1905 revolt broke out in German East Africa...