October

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Throughout Napoleon’s career as a general, he built a reputation for conceiving ambitious battle plans and somehow managing to pull them off, either through ingenious tactics…

After a two-week siege, the massive armies of Saladin forced the surrender of the few remaining knights in Jerusalem and ended almost 90 years of Crusader rule on October 2,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons After more than a year trudging into the hills avoiding Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party, Mao Zedong’s First Red Front Army reached Shaanxi on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just as the rise of Napoleon began to affect the European continent, an infamous victory for the British navy on October 21, 1805 established dominance on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons After floating more than 3,000 feet above the streets of Paris, balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin changed aviation forever by taking a startling risk on October 22, 1797:…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons As the world recovered from World War II, officials from all over the planet convened in Flushing in the New York City borough of Queens on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The 1920s had been a wild decade in the United States. In the wake of World War I, it seemed as if the nation found itself…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Early in the 20th century, a young painter began producing paintings that took the art world by storm. Born on October 25, 1881 on the Andalusian…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Spanning some 200 miles around the Philippine Islands, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) retreated from the United States’ 3rd and 7th Fleets to end what is…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Resting with his army near Milvian Bridge in Rome, Constantine the Great fell asleep wondering what the morning would bring on October 27, 312. Facing combat…