The so-called lace wars of the late 17th to the middle of the 18th century are considered today as a kind of good war, without deviations, without murders, without massacres of civilians, looting, rape, war crimes. But was it so? History shows that, unfortunately, this was not the only way it ha
Οι λαϊκές εξεγέρσεις θεωρούντο γενικά σπάνιο φαινόμενο στην Ευρώπη του 17ου αιώνα. Κι όμως ήταν πιο συνηθισμένες από ότι γενικά πιστεύεται. Η εξέγερση των Βαυαρών αγροτών κατά των Αυστριακών κατακτητών το 1705 όμως θα μπορούσε να χαρακτηριστεί ως “εθνική επανάσταση”. To 1704 οι συμμαχικές δυνάμε
To Puckle gun θα μπορούσε να είναι το πρώτο λειτουργικό πολυβόλο όπλο της ιστορίας. Σχεδιάστηκε το 1717 από τον Βρετανό εφευρέτη, νομικό και συγγραφέα Τζέιμς Πακλ. Το πολυβόλο του Πακλ, όπως επίσημα ονομάστηκε, ήταν ένα όπλο μεταξύ περιστρόφου και ελαφρού πυροβόλου. Διέθετε μια κάννη, αλλά και πε
Το αμερικανικό ιππικό έχει συνδεθεί για τους περισσότερους με τις ταινίες του Χόλιγουντ όπου οι ιππείς εξορμούσαν με περίστροφα, καραμπίνες και σπάθες κατά των Ινδιάνων. Υπήρξε όμως και μια περίπτωση που οι Αμερικανοί εξόρμησαν αλά Χόλιγουντ στην πραγματικότητα και μάλιστα κατά τη διάρκεια του Β’ Πα
The Hehe or Wahehe in Swahili are a people of 800,000 souls today who fought heroically against the German colonialists in the late 19th century. and they even managed to achieve the most humiliating defeat of the arrogant Germans. The Hehe live in what is now southern Tanzania in eastern Africa
The German infantry platoon consisted of four battle groups, a command group and a light mortar group. The squad consisted of the chief platoon leader, who usually held the rank of sergeant or corporal, and nine men, one of whom was the platoon leaders assistant. The squad leader was armed with
The leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, had many genital abnormalities and strange tastes, according to historian Emma Craigie. In particular, the author of the book Hitlers Last Day:Minute by Minute revealed in a radio discussion that according to documents from his days in the army as well as te
1805 was a year of triumph for French arms. And yet the French triumph could have been nullified by the opening of a new front, in southern Italy, as Old Albion, Britain, as another Athens, could with her wooden walls strike the French Empire in the soft, Mediterranean of, hypogastric. So while e
The brain of a 25-year-old man who died in the city of Herculaneum, Italy, near Pompeii, during the terrible eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, was turned into glass. Italian researchers have found for the first time fragments of a glassy black material inside the victims cranial cavity and speculate th
Στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1960 το ισραηλινό ναυτικό ήταν φανερό ότι υστερούσε δραματικά. Για αυτό αποφασίστηκε η ναυπήγηση νέων σκαφών και ιδίως πυραυλακάτων. Για τον σκοπό αυτό επελέγησαν τα γερμανικά ναυπηγεία Lurssen, αλλά με παρέμβαση του Αραβικού Συνδέσμου οι Γερμανοί έκαναν πίσω. Έτσι επ
Η μάχη στο Μεργκεντχάιμ στις 2 Μαΐου 1645 δεν είχε καταλυτική σημασία, δεν ήταν παρά μια τακτική σύγκρουση δύο μικρών στρατιών, μιας γαλλικής, υπό τον περίφημο (μετέπειτα) στρατάρχη Τουρέν και μιας αυτοκρατορικής – βαυαρικής υπό τον εκ Λωρραίνης Φραντς φον Μέρσι. Στο Μεργκεντχάιμ όμως αποδείχθηκε ότ
The identity of the spy of the Soviet Union, who managed to infiltrate the US nuclear bomb program in the 1940s and is perhaps the man who gave the most and most important information to Moscow about the atomic bomb, they reveal declassified US documents. Oskar Szeborer, child of Polish immigrant
In 1982 Israel had invaded the territory of Lebanon. There his forces were also confronted by corresponding Syrian forces. So Israel decided to neutralize the threat of Syrian anti-aircraft missile arrays. The Soviets had given Syria many batteries. After one of their helicopters was shot down by Is
The Battle of Verdun was one of the deadliest in human history. It began on February 21 and ended on December 18, 1916. During all these months the French and Germans fought fiercely with attacks followed by counter-attacks and the dead piling up in the dead zone. The battle started with a Germa
Eugene of Savoy was born in France. His father served in the French army and he sought to follow in his footsteps. However, Louis XIV of France did not accept him and he was forced to turn to the Austrians. His choice was reinforced by two events. Firstly his elder brother was already serving as an
In 355 AD the situation in the western part of the Roman Empire was just not good. The Germans (Alemanni and Franks), had breached the border of the Rhine and invaded as far as Gaul. The emperor Constantius then ordered his cousin – one of the few relatives he had left alive – Julian, the later empe
Ακούγεται παράξενο αλλά οι Γερμανοί διαδραμάτισαν καταλυτικό ρόλο στον Πόλεμο της Αμερικανικής Ανεξαρτησίας. Το πλέον παράδοξο της υπόθεσης ήταν ότι στρατιώτες από μικροσκοπικά γερμανικά κρατίδια έλαβαν μέρος στον πόλεμο στο πλευρό των Βρετανών, οι οποίοι «ενοικίασαν» ολόκληρα τάγματα και συντάγματα
Ο Ινδοπακιστανικός Πόλεμος του 1971 ξεκίνησε επίσημα στις 3 Δεκεμβρίου με έπαθλο την ανεξαρτησία του Μπανγκλαντές (τότε Ανατολικό Πακιστάν). Η Ινδία είχε κάθε συμφέρον να ενισχύσει τις διασπαστικές κινήσεις ώστε να εξασθενίσει τον βασικό της αντίπαλο. Ωστόσο οι συγκρούσεις ξεκίνησαν πολύ νωρίτερ
On the afternoon of June 27, 1944, with the German front in Belarus having collapsed from the great Soviet offensive, the first trains with units of the 12th Panzer Division began to arrive in the rear zone of the former 9th Army. The 12th Panzer would attempt to contain the Soviet advance north of
The little or First Northern War (1655-60) was one of the most important though lesser-known conflicts that made little Sweden a pan-European power. The Swedish king Charles Gustav, facing Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), Russia, Prussia, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, had managed, in
Other French temples such as Reims Cathedral (centuries XIII-XIV), burned down as a result of the German bombardment on September 19, 1914, receiving 288 hits until the end of the war, it was rebuilt between 1919 and 1938; the cathedral of Amiens (13th-14th centuries) was also hit, albeit slightly,
Semi-automatic type Manufacturer Springfield and Winchester are the main manufacturers Date of creation 1936 Duration of service 1936 end of the century in certain African or Latin American countries Ammunition 30-06 (7.62x63mm) Mode of action gas borrow rotary breech Rate of fire 30 rounds/m
Helmuth Johann Ludwig, Count von Moltke, born May 25, 1848 in Gersdorf (Mecklenburg), died June 18, 1916 in Berlin, was a German soldier. He was the nephew of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891), a great Prussian military leader. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he served with the
The Republic of Indonesia is a transcontinental country located in Southeast Asia and Oceania (islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean). In Indian Puranas it is called ”Dwipantara Bharat” meaning cross-sea India. This is why European historians and travelers called it Indonesia which sounds like ”Indi