The Israelites crossed over into the Land of Promise, only to find their progress barred by the well-fortified city of Jericho.

Goliath, a giant of a man from Philistia, has challenged Israel’s warrior-heroes to meet him in single combat, but only a shepherd boy is brave enough to step up.

Alexander, who had just taken the bath intended for his vanquished enemy Darius of Persia and was now eating Darius’s supper, was interrupted by a commotion in the camp.

A Danish soldier in the seventeenth century imposes the severest sentence he can think of.

William the Conqueror’s purge of the English Church was halted by a humble bishop and a dead king.

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