The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken
In 410 ce, Rome fell to an army of nomadic Germanic peoples 'Visigoths' who pillaged the city over the course of three days.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal
There has been no more daring assertion of statehood than that proclaimed by the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 and signed by all 56 delegates present.
The Long March is a manifesto, a propaganda force, a seeding-machine
In the autumn of 1933, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was on the brink of annihilation. Nationalists had taken control of the country and launched a major attack against their base in Jiangxi, a southeastern province.
There is nothing impossible to he who will try
In one of the fastest and most daring military expansions in history, Alexander the Great, the young king of Macedon in the Balkans, blazed a trail of conquest across most of the known world of his day.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack
On September 11, 2001, a group of Islamic extremists launched a devastating attack against the US.
All the lands have fallen prostrate beneath his sandals for eternity
Around 1264 bce, the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II (c.1278–1237 bce) had two mighty temples hewn out of the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile in southern Egypt.
I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed
Venetian merchant Marco Polo’s arrival at Chengdu, the capital of the Great Khan Kublai, in 1275 marked the end of a four-year journey.
A man destined to become master of the state
When in 1192 the Japanese clan leader Minamoto Yoritomo became the military commander-in-chief, or shogun, it marked the ascent to power of a Japanese military class, the samurai.
He left no court emir nor royal office holder without the gift of a load of gold
The Muslim West African kingdom of Mali burst onto the world stage with a flourish in the early 14th century, when its fabulously wealthy ruler, Mansa Musa, made an unusually extravagant hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca.
I built St. Petersburg as a window to let in the light of Europe
Russian ruler Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg, on the estuary of the River Neva, on May 27, 1703. This new city, fortress, and port by the Baltic gave Russia direct sea access to Europe, opening new opportunities for both trade and military conquest.
This is not peace. This is an armistice for 20 years
After four years of global conflict, 16 million people had died and centuries-old empires and dynasties had collapsed. In January 1919, the victors of World War I met to discuss the terms of peace.
Let us lay the cornerstone of American freedom without fear. To hesitate is to perish
The establishment in 1819 of the Republic of Colombia, or Gran Colombia as it came to be known, by Simón Bolívar, the self-styled Libertador, marked a pivotal moment in the emergence of an independent Latin America.