Ancient history

• The Napoleonic Wars through comics (II). The Franco-Belgian Dessinée Band 2005-2020

  Following the model of the series of the French editorial production , Dominique Bertail, assisted by Matz as screenwriter, submitted Shandy. Un anglais dans lEmpire focused on the adventures of a young Englishman from a noble family who, passionate about the figure of the Emperor, will enlist in th

• divine wind. The Mongol invasions of Japan

  As impressive as the conquests of the Mongol horsemen throughout the length and breadth of that enormous land mass that is Central Asia, the challenges they had to face on the limits of their great empire were ever greater. Among the setbacks suffered, no expedition suffered such severe punishment a

• Captain Francisco de Cuellar. A castaway from the Great Armada

  When you wrote the lines that lead this article, Francisco de Cuellar , former captain of the San Pedro, galleon of the Castile squadron, rested in Antwerp after more than a year of hardship. It was November 4, 1589. Shortly before, he had entered Dunkirk almost naked after a Dutch warship riddled w

• Prelude to Kharkov. The Barvénkovo-Lozovaya Offensive

  In the middle of the month, the Stavka [N. of T.:high command of the Soviet Armed Forces] continued operations by ordering the rest of its forces to launch a general offensive along the entire front from Leningrad to the Black Sea. As an integral part of this ambitious strategy, the high command of

• The Battle of Guadalete and the loss of Spain

  The Christians who lived on the Peninsula during those centuries were very aware of the importance of the event and ended up encompassing everything that happened, their explanations and some things they imagined in what was called “the loss of Spain” . To generate an explanation, the ecclesiastics

• The Battle of Sinope. The end of the age of sailing

  In the early 1850s, Russia tried realize its main objective in the region by taking control of the Turkish straits and increasing its domain over the Black Sea . As a pretext, the Russians used the dispute over the management of Christian holy places in Ottoman Palestine. Russia and France disputed

• Bunker Hill. The triumphant defeat of the American rebellion

  However, what Gage got that night was precisely the opposite. Alerted by Patriot spies from Boston, the Massachusetts countryside rose up against the intrusion of royal troops. Sam Adams and John Hancock, two of the most notorious and offensive troublemakers, escaped, and a confrontation with the mi

• Laro, the reinvented hero

  In the 1st century AD. C. a new hero appeared in literature. So Silio Italico wrote Punica , an epic poem about the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) who faced Carthaginians and Romans. At a certain point in the story, an extraordinary warrior emerges: The action is set in the Roman assault on Hannos ca

• Volkssturm. Hitler's Last Army

  If Hitler had been losing confidence in his generals Throughout the war, the failure of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 ended the little credit they still had with their Führer, who decided that that body of professionals, treacherous and lacking in faith, should be cornered in favor of a

• The battle of Honnecourt (1642), the forgotten victory of the Tercios

  In 1635 France declared war on the Hispanic Monarchy , so Philip IV and his favorite, the count-duke of Olivares , they were forced to stand up to Louis XIII and his favourite, Richelieu , to maintain Spanish hegemony in Europe. The formal French declaration was made melodramatically in Brussels,

• Stalingrad and the plans for Operation Uranus

  Basically, those two Soviet armies were going to be sacrificed with the sole purpose of attracting operational German forces to the city and, once there, wearing them down in an urban combat for which they were neither trained nor accustomed and in which the Soviet soldiers, by sticking to them and

• The conquest of the Vandal kingdom. The battles of Ad Decimum and Tricamerum

  After a long journey across the Mediterranean, in fall 533, Welisario he landed in Sicily, where he learned that, far from expecting an attack, Gelimer, king of the Vandals, was in the south of the country, in the city of Hermione, four days march from the coast. He also learned that Gelimer had sen

• The 1st Bull Run and the outbreak of the Civil War

  A warmongering fervor gripped North and South after the surrender of Fort Sumter in April 1861. The two halves of the country were preparing for war, one to preserve the Union, the other to form an independent nation. The rival presidents, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis They rushed to create th

• The Marcomanni Wars of Marcus Aurelius

  Although in all these territories indigenous revolts in the years following its annexation, at the beginning of the second half of the 2nd century AD. C. the provinces of Raetia , Noricum , Pannonia (Top and Bottom ) and Moesia (Top and Bottom ) were firmly in the hands of Rome. To these provinces

• The insurgency in Mosul, 2003-2005

  America had shed its blood and spent its budget throughout northern Iraq in its struggle to protect Mosul and its environs, and had worked tirelessly for more than half a decade to try to build up security forces that would deal reliably with the insurgent threat, which, however, disintegrated. sudd

• Relics and battles. The Holy War of Emperor Heraclius

  Now, the Muslim jihad and the Christian crusade They were undoubtedly two maximum exponents of hybridization between religion and war. Interestingly, in the consolidation of the idea of ​​holy war In both spaces of civilization, the figure of an emperor appears, Heraclius, the last Roman sovereign t

• 1212. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

  This situation had been reached after more than five decades in which most of the peninsular Christian kingdoms –Portugal, León, Castile and Aragón– had had to withstand the pressure of the Almohades . To a greater or lesser extent, all of them had suffered defeats and, in some cases, significant te

• Starlit operation. Viet Nam, 1965

  Hanoi sent an entire division through the Ho Chi Minh Trail to reinforce Viet Cong (VC) forces near Saigon and ordered the battle-hardened VC 1st Regiment to mount an attack on the new US Marine Corps (USMC) airbase at Chu Lai. They thought the Americans would give up if they were shown up front tha

• The Spanish soldiers in the Flanders of the kermesses

  The soldiers of the Duke of Alba burst into the world embodied on canvas by Pieter Brueghel the Elder in pictures that are partly humorous –without a certain air of social criticism– and partly bucolic, such as La boda campesina (1568), The Flemish proverbs (1559) and The wine of the feast of Saint

• The Bohemian Campaign of Frederick the Great (1757)

  Although his invasion and annexation of Silesia during the War of the Austrian Succession had been formally recognized by the Peace of Dresden in 1745, Frederick the Great he knew it was just an armistice. In a confidential testament drawn up in 1752, he stated that since Austria was the country Pru