New York City fell to a British fleet of 30,000 soldiers and Hessian mercenaries, German soldiers-for-hire. A crucial turning point in the war came at the end of 1777, in Saratoga, New York ...

Danny Orbach, a senior lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote an intriguing account of post-war ... or revolutionary movements in Syria, Egypt, and Algeria. A majority became arms merchants ...

A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky ...