At a distance of only 1,000 meters from the Vietnam - Laos line, there was a series of hills, overgrown and inaccessible. The four hills, 937, 916, 900 and 800 had absolutely no military value. They were not the crossing point of any road. It could never have been thought that a deadly battle could
In 1898, Greece was literally boiling. The war with Turkey had ended, a few months before, with a humiliating defeat. At the same time, Greece had to pay huge war reparations, even though it had already been bankrupt since 1893. Thus, an International Financial Control was imposed on the country.
This new entry represents a very important symbolic milestone, as it reaches the number of three hundred articles written on the blog. That is why I have chosen a theme that is also symbolic:the battle of Tamarón, which took place in the year 1037 and which constitutes the final episode of my second
The Greek Army landed in Smyrna, in 1919, as the representative of the great powers, which, after the enormous human sacrifices of the flower of their human potential in the trenches of the First World War, did not wish for any reason, how much rather to serve the Greek interests, to repeat them fig