The battle began on March 18, 1915, when the British and French navies launched a large-scale naval assault to seize control ...

Pulaski Day festivities at Chicago's Polish Museum of America honored the "Father of American Cavalry," 280 years after his ...

When the cannon is fired, the roar is greeted with cheers ... Meanwhile, the Muslim community in Albania, with roots in the Ottoman Empire, celebrates Ramadan with traditional ballad singing. They ...

The most widely accepted story traces the Ramadan cannon back to 15th-century Egypt during the reign of Sultan Khosh Qadam.

He says that this tradition of announcing iftar with the roar of cannon from the castle was created in the early 18th century by a group of soldiers during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. In Prizren, ...