These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise bleak era in French history. Entering the Second World War, it was assumed ...

During the First World War, British and French military leaders—including the then First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill—came up with a bold, but ill-fated, plan to sail up the Dardanelles in ...

In the night of July 2-3 at various ports in England and Scotland, armedparties of British officers & men quietly boarded all major French shipsberthed with the Home Fleet, mostly at Portsmouth and ...

Early on July 3, 1940, a massive British Royal Navy task force assembled off of Mers-el-Kébir in what was then French Algeria. The port was home to a small but powerful French Navy squadron that had ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century ...