The promising career of the young Thomas Beddoes -graduated in Medicine and Chemistry, enthusiastic botanist, able to translate texts in Latin and Greek, speak English, French, German, Italian or Spanish, and even become an expert in Vedic and Brahmanical texts from India-, was cut short partly beca
On 07.20.1944, a group of soldiers and civilians led by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler during a briefing in the wooden barrack-hut inside the super-guarded Wolfs Lair . They detonated a one kilo bomb two meters from where the Fuhrer was, who, at the moment of th
The nucleus of the Greek Infantry was, as in all armies, the battle group. However, the Greek battle group was relatively large numerically, in an attempt to complement the one machine gun it had with a sufficient number of rifles. Each battle group was distinguished into two echelons, the machin
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1936-1975). Head of state. He was born on December 4, 1892 in El Ferrol (La Coruña). On August 29, 1907, he entered the Infantry Academy, where he became a second lieutenant on July 13, 1910, a first lieutenant in 1912, a captain in 1914, and rose through the ranks until