The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

The exhibit explores the early days of U.S.-China trade with a focus on Connecticut merchants and sailors who participated in ...

Amitav Ghosh on the Opium Wars. NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2008 — Sea of Poppies author Amitav Ghosh discusses the origins of Great Britain's 19th-century opium trade between India and China. ... Trade War ...

US News: In a revealing interview on the Joe Rogan podcast, Kash Patel, the new FBI Director, unveils the alarming reality of the fentanyl crisis in America, describing it as a form of chemical ...

The liberation of Brazil was decided in 1823. Jose Bonifacio’s, government created a new Imperial Navy. First Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane led the new Navy to total victory in a short and brilliant ...

Historically associated with the Opium Wars between Britain and China in the 19th century, this species is still cultivated today for medicinal purposes as the natural source of morphine and codeine.

Privately run businesses created just 37,000 new jobs in May — the smallest increase in more than two years — as the worst global trade wars since the 1930s spurred many firms to put a pause ...

The iconoclastic American general Douglas Macarthur once said that “wars are never won in the past”.. That sentiment certainly seemed to ring true following Ukraine’s recent audacious attack ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia State Police issued a critically missing adult alert on behalf of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for Angelina Petra Resendiz, who was last seen around 10 ...

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a ...

The flagship of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group returned to its homeport of Norfolk, along with thousands of sailors excited to reunite with their loved ones.

It now serves as a floating war sailors museum and during its Newcastle stay it is encouraging local schools, veterans’ groups and cadets, as well as the wider public, to visit free of charge ...