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Jul 21, 2025
Fitting for the sovereign of the seas, Queen Victoria’s 1897 Diamond Jubilee climaxed in a display of naval power. At the Spithead Review on June 26, an armada of 165 warships...
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May 19, 2025
The 1840s were a watershed decade in U.S. foreign policy marked by naval expansion, intervention in Cuba, annexation of Texas, and war with Mexico, constituting a smaller...
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Mar 17, 2025
In 1713, Britain acquired the asiento de Negros, an agreement to to annually supply Spanish America with 140,000 enslaved Africans. In 1746 political economist Malachy...