Admiral Lord Howe battered a French fleet far out in the Atlantic, and helped prevent the spread of bloody revolution.

The Nazi-collaborating Vichy government in France paid Rugby League the supreme compliment: they banned it.

A firework display in Paris turned to tragedy in the narrow streets of the capital.

A young French cavalry soldier took a tremendous risk to rescue a drowning man.

The soldier went quite deliberately into a burning room full of gunpowder and ammunition.

French revolutionaries in a fleet of four ships attempted to spark a revolution in Britain.