American riflemen from Col. Daniel Morgan's Provisional Rifle Corps are depicted at the Battle of Saratoga, October 7, 1777. ...
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The sniper who killed at 1.5 miles

In 2009, British Army sniper Craig Harrison took aim at two Taliban fighters in Helmand Province. From over 2,475 meters away ...
Tom Phillips, 29, from Colwyn Bay in North Wales, joined the International Battalion after Russia invaded the country and ...
History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the ...
Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrach Byfield, an English ...
Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, once a hub for foreign journalists during Lebanon’s civil war, has closed amid the country’s ...
A “defence investment plan” ( DIP ), a document laying out the weapons and platforms the Ministry of Defence intends to buy ...
A First Fusilier sniper team represented the regiment at the European NATO Sniper Competition, partnering with colleagues from the Rifles regiment to secure an impressive fourth place overall. With ...
The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...
Iranian authorities have mercilessly slaughtered more than 500 people in a ruthless crackdown on the nationwide anti-regime ...
Denmark deployed soldiers to both Iraq and Afghanistan when America launched the Global War on Terrorism. Fifty of their ...