On Friday 1st September 1939, Hitler's Nazi forces invaded Poland. By Sunday morning, Britain had declared war. In Countdown to War, presenter Raksha Dave investigates how ordinary Brits reacted ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

The British evacuation plan centered on three American ports -- Savannah, Charleston and New York -- as well as the Spanish port of St. Augustine, where the largest group of black refugees had ...

The evacuation of British children is going on smoothly and efficiently. The Ministry of Health says that great progress has been made with the first part of the government's arrangements.

the discovery of an unexploded bomb from World War II prompted a large-scale evacuation, directly impacting thousands of citizens. The operation began after construction workers found a British ...

D-Day While bombs rained down on British cities, the courage of many children was tested by an entirely different experience - evacuation to the countryside and separation from the family and ...

Last February, British military personnel removed a 1,100-pound World War II bomb from the garden of ... described as “one of the largest evacuation operations since the end of World War Two.” ...

Its administration evacuated over 15,000 civilians and 1,000 military personnel from Afghanistan since August 13 LONDON, 28 August. / TASS /. The British administration finished evacuating from ...