The past ten years has seen some life breathed back into Fort William, a town often associated as the gateway to the ...

Fort William McKinley was established in 1901 during the Philippine-American War. The fort was located in the Rizal area south of Manila. The base was named after the American President ...

Job Charnock may have been the most famous of the early Englishmen to come to this part of the country but contemporary accounts hardly speak highly of him ...

The defence ministry’s decision to rename Kolkata’s historic Fort William as Vijaydurg, after a fort in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg, has sparked a debate among historians, military veterans and ...

In the latest step toward eliminating colonial practices and mindsets within the armed forces, Fort William in Kolkata, the headquarters of the Eastern Army Command, has been renamed Vijay Durg.

Built in 1781, the historic Fort William was named after King William III during the reign of the Bengal Presidency. In the area known as Maidan, houses some of India’s iconic landmarks such as ...