On this day: Last soldier fallen in WWI
Certain soldiers acquired a tragic posthumous celebrity by dying a matter of minutes before the ceasefire on 11th November 1918....
11/11/2012
MILITARY HISTORY
The recruitment in English Civil War
In the middle of the 17th century England experienced a great convulsion of political and military violence, which quickly spread...
13/10/2012
The battle of Civitate
Five Norman brothers, sons of Tancred of Hauteville, carved out a principality in the Byzantine Empire’s territory in Southern Italy...
10/06/2012
Spanish volunteers for Nazi Germany: The Blue Division
On the beginning of World War II Franco’s Spain just went through the civil war that lasted long enough to...
29/05/2012
World War II: Aftermath Facts
The cost of World War II is uncalculable in human or financial terms. estimates indicate that about 55 million people...
20/05/2012
The Bay of Pigs: The Unsuccessful Invasion
On the night of April 16th and 17th, 1961, 1,400 armed men on board a flotilla of small boats and...
20/04/2012
The War Horses of the Western Front
Michael Morpurgo’s popular novel War Horse (1982) has rightly been referred to as ‘the Black Beauty of the Great War’....
18/04/2012
British bombarment of Copenhagen 1802
The British had shelled the Danish capital before, in 1801, but the second onslaught was even more devastating. The Danes...
18/04/2012
János Hunyadi, 15th century Hungarian leader
János Hunyadi (c.1387 – 1456) was a 15th century Hungarian leader who was instrumental in repelling the Ottoman Turks. The...
07/04/2012
The importance of the battle of Marathon
“For if you agree with me that we should fight, you make your country free and your city the best...
28/03/2012