The Allied invasion of Vichy French North Africa in 1942, known as Operation Torch, was the first mass involvement of U.S. troops in the European-North African Theatre and the first major airborne ...

Today in U.S. Naval History - October 21 1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Hartts Boston shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. 1942 ...

“Catastrophic” was the term used by Maxence Devillers, a market analyst at Argus Media France, which specialises in assessing energy and commodity prices, during a conference on the French annual ...

He commanded the French troops in North Africa—but he did so under the resented direction and authority of Darlan. He loomed as the likeliest alternative to Darlan—but Darlan admitted no alternative ...

Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb ...

Today in U.S. Naval History - October 21 1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Hartts Boston shipyard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy. 1942 ...

Orient or France? nineteenth-century debates -- Renoir and impressionist Orientalism -- A society for Orientalists -- Orientalists in the public eye -- Colonial panoramania -- Traveling scholarships ...