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The War of the Breton Succession or the Breton War of Succession (1341–1365) was a war over the succession of the Dukes of Brittany, north-western France, that lasted for over twenty years. The war was a major conflict in the long Hundred Years’ War, which drove both France and England into a fight for survival and a contest for supremacy in Western Europe. Talia Bega exp...

The story of Catherine of Aragon unfolds as one of the most compelling intersections of personal conviction and political consequence in Tudor history. Born into the formidable courts of Spain, the youngest daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, Catherine was raised at the heart of a newly unified and deeply Catholic kingdom. Her parents had complet...

He was not supposed to be remembered this way. Caleb Bradham was a pharmacist, trained for local steadiness rather than worldwide success, a man expected to move plainly through small-town commerce in late–19th-century North Carolina. However something in him bent toward experiment—toward mixtures, margins, and the uncertain chemistry of public taste, perhaps without full...

Carthage was thoroughly defeated and humiliated by the Romans during the Second Punic War. However, many in Rome feared Carthage’s rise and the potential dangers it could pose to the Romans. The Third Punic War was Rome’s final decisive strike to erase Carthage from the map. The war was simple, straightforward, and one-sided. It ended with the complete annihilation of one...

The War of the Breton Succession or the Breton War of Succession (1341–1365) was a war over the succession of the Duchy of Brittany, northern France. The war was a major conflict within the wider Hundred Years’ War, which drove both France and England into a struggle for dominance.