Provides detailed facts and information about how the CIA-backed Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.

Kids learn about the biography of Cyrus the Great from Ancient Mesopotamia on this site. Study how he established the first Persian Empire and released the Jews from exile.

Kids learn about the biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, the first Emperor of France who conquered much of Europe before being defeated and sent into exile on this site.

Discusses Amin as a major killer of the 20th century. Includes a timeline of his life and background information.

A short article on Charles II with a link to a timeline/chronology of monarchs of France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Great Britain.

Interview between President Aristide and journalist and author Amy Goodman where Aristide describes his ousting and the role the American Military played in this ouster.

Very short article on Charles II of England. Includes links to further related information on the House of Stuart, James II, Charles I, Dover, and Worcester.

A map of Europe at the time of Napoleon and his campaigns (1796-1815), showing the political boundaries at the time, and the routes of The First Italian Campaign with the battle sites of Lodi and Arcole, and the Treaty of Campo Formio...

A map of France at the end of the War of the Sixth Coalition (1812-1814) between the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte and the coalition forces of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, and several German States,...

A map of the area around Leipzig, Germany, showing the battle site where French forces under Napoleon were defeated by the forces of the Sixth Coalition (Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, Britain, Spain, Portugal, and the German...

More chaotic times for Haiti as the elected official, Jean-Bertrand Aristide is exiled from his country. 3/2004

Put into effect by Menepta, he collected all of the leprous, unclean, and diseased people of Israel and threw them into stone quarries, exiling them from their homes.

Besides Sappho, her friend, perhaps lover, Alcaeus is almost the sole representative of the Aeolic school of poetry. He was a noble of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos. With other nobles he opposed and drove into exile the tyrant of this...

(1720-1788) Charles Edward was the exiled claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland and was known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie."

James Crofts, later James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and 1st Duke of Buccleuch (April 9, 1649 - July 15, 1685), was an English nobleman. He was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress,...

John Knox (c. 1510 - 24 November 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a...

Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, commonly called Prince Rupert of the Rhine, (17 December 1619 - 29 November 1682), soldier, inventor and amateur artist in mezzotint. He was a soldier from a young age, fighting...

An image of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.