Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) is considered one of the best military strategists in all of history but, like everyone else in life, he also suffered setbacks, defeats... and a great humiliation .Among the great setbacks we can mention the Russian campaign (1812) , as the most significant defeat
When the Romans defeated the Carthaginians and, later, the Celtiberian, Lusitanian and Asturian rebels... they obtained, in addition to fertile and productive lands, important metal deposits in what would become the province of Hispania. In the words of Pliny (in Naturalis Historia ): Hispania is
Blog readers know that I dont usually do translations of other blog posts or articles or historical posts. I prefer to write my posts with my own words and personal contributions and from different sources. Today I am going to throw an exception for the first time. Mattthew Lewis is a well-known aut
The Crimean War (1853-1856) pitted the tsarist Russia of Nicholas I against the Ottoman Empire of Sultan Abdul-Mejid I supported by France and the British Empire. The expansionist pretensions of Russia towards the East, camouflaged in questions of a religious nature, triggered a bloody war that many