1. New Orleans, Louisiana (April 1862)
2. Memphis, Tennessee (June 1862)
3. Vicksburg, Mississippi (July 1863)
4. Atlanta, Georgia (September 1864)
Entry extracted from the book The Plantagenets It could be thought that the leading role of Eleanor of Aquitaine after the death of her husband Henry II, with which the second entry dedicated to her ended, had ended with her accession to the throne of his son Richard. But neither the character of t
Appointed Superintendent of Finance by Mazarin, Nicolas Fouquet worked from 1653 to 1661 to restore the finances of the kingdom, damaged by the episode of the Fronde. Thanks to his office, he accumulated a considerable fortune and had a magnificent castle built on his land in Vaux. Fouquet, who want
Wishful thinking is a beautiful thing, but its hard to argue with the facts. The Second Polish Republic was not a vestibule of civilization. More like a backwater. Single developed cities were separated by hundreds of kilometers of mud, backwardness and banditry. You could even say that our ancestor
The circumstances of Alexander the Greats death still challenge the imagination of many scientists. New Zealand researcher Kathryn Hall of the Dunedin Medical School formulated another theory about the mysterious illness that led to the death of the soldier, who, according to her, was buried alive.