The success of the performance hinged on keeping Filipino troops out of the city while U.S. and Spanish troops exchanged places. On the morning of August 13, the mock battle for Manila began. The band ...

At a drone testing field in southwestern Taiwan, university students watch anxiously as unmanned aerial vehicles they designed take off, land and, occasionally, crash in a simulated battlefield ...

The people of Rome threw a party in 46 B.C. that would be remembered for many years to come. Julius Caesar had just returned, having crushed the followers of his great rival, Pompey the Great.

As part of the festivities, the soldiers engage in a mock battle in which they fire blanks while riding in small boats to capture the legendary pirate. Festival officials, though, note that the ...

Afterwards, on Feb. 13, why not celebrate a lifelong commitment to love by watching men fight each other in a giant mock naval battle? It’s true: A large-scale battle took place between ...