PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- Desi Bouterse, a military strongman who led a 1980 coup in the former Dutch colony of Suriname then ...
The National Guard is the oldest armed service in the United States and traces back to legislation approved on Dec. 13, 1636.
The ‘Dutch Declaration of the Rights of Man’ envisaged that no power on earth should have the right to control the destinies ...
New Year’s Eve is precisely the time to throw those cares away and head into the night with abandon. Sleepwalking into World ...
LATHAM, N.Y. - Two New York National Guard Soldiers and an Airman commemorated the National Guard’s 388th birthday at New ...
Found beneath a building in the town of Alkmaar, the animal bones had been used to fill in gaps between crumbling pieces of tile ...
This isn’t one for the history books. An educational nonprofit organizing events around the 400th anniversary of New York City’s founding is ripping City Hall’s preparation for the ...
New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland, saw a sudden influx of African slave labor in 1655. The Dutch had been involved with the African ...
establishing the Cape as a slave colony. With poor living conditions, mortality amongst the slaves was high, and the Dutch settlers were continuously importing new slaves to the Cape. Over 150 years, ...