Funan, distributed in Spain by Alfa Pictures, is the feature debut by Denis Do , a young French director of Cambodian origin, who has been acclaimed at several festivals, including the award for best feature film at the Annecy Festival. In this article we tell you our impressions of a film that has
The operation, which was intended to be a limited military action , but politically ambitious –maintaining the spirit of resistance until the international situation allowed a more favorable solution to the conflict for republican interests–, ended up wearing down a good part of the most combative u
Similarly, no one could imagine that the Japan of the Tokugawa shogunate ,[1] an autocratic, feudal and isolationist regime, would in just over a century and a half become a clearly advanced, open country with military ambitions. The arrival en masse in the mid-nineteenth century of the European pow
No one took responsibility for the order to start shooting It is not even known if someone gave it or it was the result of the nervousness of the deployed soldiers. In just one minute, several compact bursts of shots followed one another:four students fell dead, one more was left paraplegic. And a s
These criteria were taken into account for obtaining of company captaincies. In the times of Felipe II, 10 or 12 years of service were required and to go through all the lower sections of the ranks. The system had certain exceptions:the nobles had more facilities for promotion due to their status, a
smallpox It is an infectious disease caused by a virus, eradicated at the present time. Three variants are known (in apes, bovine and human), of which the last one is the one with the highest morbidity and mortality –up to 60%–, being associated with major physical sequelae in patients who did not d
The Greenlandic adventure of the Scandinavians while introducing us to the Vikings in their facet of skillful navigators, discoverers and colonizers of new lands, also showed us their more human, more familiar face, since after all what they were looking for were lands to establish farms and be able
The Bettoni column belonged to 8. Italian Army , tasked with protecting the left flank of the German 6th Army as it advanced towards Stalingrad. The Italians, deployed south of the winding Don, occupied a front too extensive to be defended with the few forces they had. The Soviet 63rd Army had been
Confrontation between 1446 and 1450 Juan II of Castile and the lieutenant of Aragon Juan II of Navarra, the IV count of Medinaceli , Gastón de la Cerda y Sarmiento[1], would be named Captain General of the border with Aragon by the Castilian King. Quartered in the fortress of Gómara, his mission wou
In the penultimate year of the conflict, 1597, he had place the largest naval encounter of the war. It came in the weeks following the second Japanese invasion, in October. The result was a coup de grâce for the Japanese forces and an unstoppable morale boost for the Koreans. An episode of such magn
The white walkers and his hosts of undead occupy almost as important a part in the series of Game of Thrones and in the saga of A Song of Ice and Fire like the intrigues and conspiracies exercised by antagonistic kingdoms and families. However, as Stannis conveys to Samwell Tarly in A Storm of Blad
That morning Lieutenant Colonel Millán Astray , who a year earlier had founded the Tercio de Extranjeros, was found in Rokba-Gozal together with three flags of his recently created corps, forming part of the campaign to take Tazarut, on the western front. He receives from General Álvarez del Manzan
However, the main concerns of the new king will be the affirmation of royal power and dynastic continuity (Lapeña, 2008). Such continuity was intended to be ensured in a document issued in Barbastro on August 11, 1137, according to which the newborn daughter of the king-monk was delivered to the Cou
Jerry Toner refers in his book Sixty Millions of Romans:The Culture of the People in Ancient Rome (Crítica, 2012) that laughter was probably the trait that marked the spirit of leisure of the «non-elite»:it was the weapon at hand to mock the pretensions (and exclusions) of «official» culture. Caesar
This was because industry, government and the state economy were not fully prepared to bear the enormous cost of creating and continuously maintaining such a navy. However, with the expansion across the Atlantic and the Pacific, it became necessary to create a force that could guarantee the defense
The emperor is aware that at this point in the site and with so much blood spilled on both sides, both he and Mehmed , they are fighting not only for the city of Constantine, but for his Empire and for his own life. In the Ottoman camp, the advisability of continuing with a siege that has been going
In February 1630, the Spanish soldier of fortune Diego Duque de Estrada arrived in Vienna from Transylvania. The imperial ambassador in that principality, with whom he had befriended, presented him in public audience to the Holy Emperor Ferdinand II (1578-1637). In the company of the Habsburg, the D
This issue of Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval:Adrianople, is dedicated to the analysis and understanding of a battle that has traditionally marked a before and after in the evolution of Late Antiquity. A battle that has fascinated scholars of all time and that has become part of the great Roman mi
After more than half a year of the War of Independence, on Christmas 1808 , the Army of the Left, commanded by the Marquis of La Romana, was increasingly depleted by hunger and typhus. This caused them to fall back towards León to join forces with the British ally, led by Sir John Moore. Both armies
This terse text sent to British units, very similar to those that the combatants of the other countries involved would receive, it signaled the beginning of the end of the war that was going to end all wars (the phrase is attributed to H. G. Wells), the conflict that, when it broke out, should not l
Gradually organized into tournaments, the jousting was a medieval combat of men on horseback who fought by means of a spear. Favorite occupation of nobles in the Middle Ages , the tournaments experienced an extraordinary vogue in France from the 12th century before spreading to Germany and England.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the most remarkable events of the end of the 20th century and took place at the turn of the 9th to the 10th of November 1989. The fall of this wall was one of the chapters that marked the decadence of the socialist bloc that existed in Eastern Europe and starte
The capture of the English ship Kent by Robert Surcouf in 1800 in the Bay of Bengal • THE HOLBARN ARCHIVE/ BRIDGEMAN IMAGES Pronouncing certain surnames such as Surcouf, Duguay-Trouin or Chateaubriand immediately brings to mind Saint-Malo, whose name alone evokes the memory of a corsair city. Th
Because the economic relations between France and its external possessions are still in conformity, in 1934, with the principles of the old Colonial Pact, with the customs assimilation, the monopoly of the flag for the commercial navigation, the systematic development of the products and materials n