Bullet marks are still visible on the facade of the house in Mexico where Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated 80 years ago. Although this first attempt on his life failed, the second, on August 20, 1940, accomplished Stalins goal. I am already familiar with death, Leon Trotsky told t
After his defeat in Russia in 1813, Napoleon returned to France and attempted to rebuild a new army. Numerically he succeeded by mustering over 150,000 men. However, in terms of quality, this army lagged behind dramatically. His great weakness was the lack of cavalry. Nevertheless, Napoleon managed
The state of Liechtenstein appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, in order to be granted by the Czech Republic territories, which were seized in 1945 from Czechoslovakia. Liechtenstein has filed a formal complaint, seeking the return of approximately half a million acres of land and some of
In June 1694 a huge army of Crimean Tatars, allies of the Ottoman Turks, invaded Polish lands with the aim of plundering and pillaging, but also creating a distraction as the main Polish forces fought the Turks. Consequently, the forces that could be deployed against the Tatar invaders were small.
The Tsar Bomb was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated and a few days ago Rosatom released a video with new footage from the historic moment. The new footage from the distant 1961 was released by the Russian Rosatom a few days before the 71st anniversary of the first atomic bomb test in t
Το MiG-21 αποτέλεσε ίσως το σήμα κατατεθέν της σοβιετικής αεροπορίας κατά τον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο. Έτσι δεν θα μπορούσε να μην διατεθεί και στις αεροπορίες των βαλκανικών δορυφόρων κρατών και της Γιουγκοσλαβίας με την οποία οι Σοβιετικοί επεδίωκαν επαναπροσέγγιση. Από τα κομμουνιστικά βαλκανικά κράτη μόνο
Στις 15 Μαρτίου 1815 ο στρατάρχης Ιωακείμ Μυρά, βασιλιάς, ακόμα στο βασίλειο της Νεαπόλεως, αποφάσισε να αλλάξει και πάλι στρατόπεδο και να στραφεί κατά των νέων του συμμάχων και υπέρ του Ναπολέοντα που είχε αποδράσει από τη νήσο Έλβα. Ο Μυρά είχε τοποθετηθεί βασιλιάς στο νοτιοϊταλικό βασίλειο της Ν
After their defeat in Vienna, in 1683, the Turks accepted the counterattack of the Austrians, retreating to present-day Serbia. After the conquest of Belgrade by the Imperialists (the army of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, led by the Habsburg ruler of Austria), the Turks made Nice their
The men of the Afrika Korps also belonged to an, if not elite, at least distinct force and they knew it. This knowledge gave birth, precisely, to the wonderful unit spirit that possessed the units of the Afrika Korps, from their first to their last combat engagement on the North African front. I
The noise that disturbed the stillness of that spring night four years ago above the Pentagon was something like a loud buzzing. The camp guards could not identify him, but immediately alerted the duty officer to the strange noise. The latter ordered the searchlights to be turned on, and then everyo
Το καλοκαίρι του 1566 είδε την τελευταία απόπειρα του Τούρκου σουλτάνου Σουλεϊμάν του λεγόμενου «μεγαλοπρεπή», να εξουδετερώσει τους Αψβούργους, καταλαμβάνοντας και τη Βιέννη. Την 1η Μαΐου 1566 ο Σουλεϊμάν, επικεφαλής μιας τεράστιας στρατιάς που σύμφωνα με ορισμένες πηγές αριθμούσε 300.000 άνδρες. Ά
Η Κρούπα είναι μια μικρή πόλη στην σημερινή Βοσνία – Ερζεγοβίνη. Το 1565 τα πράγματα ήταν διαφορετικά καθώς η πόλη αποτελούσε συνοριακό οχυρό μεταξύ της αυτοκρατορίας των Αψβούργων και της Οθωμανικής αυτοκρατορίας που τότε ακόμα κυβερνούσε ο Σουλεϊμάν ο λεγόμενος «μεγαλοπρεπής», που μάλλον μικροπρεπ
On October 2, 1940, the German occupying governor of Warsaw, Ludwig Fischer, signed the decree to cut off the Jewish quarter from the rest. Within a few days the capital of Poland, where the largest Jewish community lived before the war, would turn into the largest ghetto on European soil. When the
Handheld firearms had been invented years before. They had been used in various battles of the early Renaissance. However, they were not the decisive instrument of the fight, unlike the heavily armored lance-wielding horsemen and the masses of sarissaphores. But everything changed from April 28, 150
The Lankreuzer (Land Cruiser) P. 1000 Ratte (Rat) would be the most powerful land-based warship ever built by man. It was a battle tank, a real cruiser, with ship engines and battleship armament! It was a proposal by Krupp director Eduard Grote that was submitted in June 1942. Along with the proposa
On the coast of the Caspian Sea, near the city of Derbend, Dagestan, lies abandoned an imposing Ekranoplane, a huge hybrid aircraft of the Soviet Union, also known as the Caspian Monster, as the American secret services. The Ekraplane is a vehicle that looks like an airplane but its operation is bas
The castle of Trebovla was built in the 14th century. in the valley of the small river Hniezna in todays western Ukraine which in 1675 was part of Poland. The castle was small (100 x 40m) but strongly built with walls up to 4m thick. In 1672 the Polish-Turkish War had broken out. After various excha
Ο Γκαμπριέλε ντ’ Ανούντσιο αποτελεί μια ιδιόμορφη ιστορική προσωπικότητα. Φανατικός Ιταλός εθνικιστής και προάγγελος του φασισμού, πολέμησε στον Α’ Παγκόσμιο και όχι άδικα μπορεί να θεωρηθεί ως ο ηθικός αυτουργούς τρομακτικών εγκλημάτων κατά των Ιταλών στρατιωτών από την ανίκανη διοίκησή τους. Ρομαν
Στις 6 Οκτωβρίου 1941 οι Γερμανοί εισβολείς κατέλαβαν το Μπριάνσκ στην ΕΣΣΔ. Λίγο αργότερα ένας τεχνικός σε τοπικό εργοστάσιο και ένας καθηγητής σε τοπικό τεχνικό σχολείο, ο Μπρόνισλαβ Καμίνσκι και ο Κονσταντίν Βοσκομπόινικ παρουσιάστηκαν στους Γερμανούς και τους προσέφεραν τις υπηρεσίες τους. Ο
In 1743 the War of the Austrian Succession was in its third year. The conflicts raged from one end to the other in Europe, but also in America and Asia, in a war that was not unjustly characterized by many as the First World War. Italy was another front of this war where Spaniards, Neapolitans an
The Battle of Sandepu was one of the most important battles of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) fought in Manchuria, in the homonymous village near Mukden. After the great battle of Shaho where the Russians suffered a tactical defeat against the inferior Japanese, the two armies deployed against eac
The battle of Satsk was one of the last battles fought by the brave Poles against the invaders in their homeland in 1939. However, the opponents in this case were not the Germans but the Soviets. Pre-war Poland had a strong military border guard (BGB). However, after the German invasion, the best un
In the year 1833 workers in a quarry on Mount Bryn yr Ellyllon (literally Hill of the Fairies ) in Mold, a town in the county of Flintshire in North Wales, found a prehistoric burial mound containing a simple stone-lined tomb. It contained the remains of an individual on which a golden object had be
Viceroyalty of New Granada , Spanish Virreinato de Nueva Granada , in the colonial Latin America , a Spanish viceroyalty—first founded in 1717, suppressed in 1723, and rebuilt in 1739—comprising todays Colombia , Panama (after 1751), Ecuador and Venezuela and had its capi