The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth collapsed because it was too divided to defend itself. Internal chaos, ethnic tensions, and a broken political system allowed foreign powers to manipulate the ...

The 1863 rebellion aimed to restore the independent Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which Tsarist Russia had partitioned and controlled. It was eventually brutally suppressed the following year by ...

He arrives at Fort Ticonderoga in the spring of 1777 and conducts an inspection of the fortifications as well as those on Mount Independence, a fortified point across the strait ...

Lithuania’s heritage and culture, with its quirky, bohemian spirit, gentle lisping language, Nordic-style cuisine and long-standing multiculturalism, had been left in the shadows by a long, dark cloak ...