The question often asked but rarely explored or answered is why the Arab Middle East has remained quiet and on the sidelines as their fellow Arabs in ...

The impetus for this gathering was, of course, Britain’s reaction to the Colonial reaction to the Tea Act of 1773, which was ...

The Dutch established a lasting colony in South America that is today the country of Suriname. It lost South Africa and its Indian trading posts to the British, but retained control of the Dutch East ...

The British Colonial Office did not believe troops from the empire were ... Just after daybreak, the Boers raised white flags ...

While the French fleet commanded by Admiral Comte de Grasse blocked the Chesapeake and held the British fleet at bay, American and French troops trapped British forces at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.

The blue rectangle, originally adopted from the Union Flag since erstwhile Malaya was a British colony, now means unity of the people of the country. The flag was adopted on May 26, 1950. The ...