A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War ... The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.” The poem ends with Owen ...

Right: Siegfried Sassoon. Rupert Brooke was one of the first British war poets. He felt it was important to do your duty for your country. His famous poem The Soldier said, "If I should die ...

It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812. The stanzas recount the Battle of Baltimore, a days-long siege between British and American forces. The poem was set to a tune ...

On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, Connecticut, burning houses and barns and destroying stores of shoes, ...