That is the account told by the Argives and Aeginetans, and they agree with the Athenians that only one Athenian returned home to Attica...

Another Egyptian custom resembles one practiced by the Spartans alone among the Hellenes. Young people make way and stand aside for their...

For honour, worthily obtain’d (as for Example that of our Officers), is in its Nature a personal Thing, and incommunicable to any but...

It is the persisting in an Error, not the Correcting it that lessens the Honour of any Man or body of Men. Franklin, Benjamin....

I had to return to my family at Chátenay to answer for my desperate action to my grandfather the Maréchal de Ségur. Arriving in the early...

Fabricius was a Roman leader when Rome was at war with Pyrrhus. There were trying to negotiate a peace treaty when the following occurred:

Joseph Reed, a young man with a long jaw and a somewhat quizzical look in his eyes, was a charming, London-trained Philadelphia lawyer who had been chosen as part of an honorary escort when Washington departed Philadelphia for his new command. Reed had intended to ride only as far as New York, but found himself so in awe of the general that he continued on to Cambridge to become Washington’s secretary, despite the fact that he had made no provisions for his wife and three you