It must have been around 3:00 p.m. when the 3rd company, under the command of Deputy Athanasios Mamalis, set out to take up positions in front of the Kalampaki hill to attack and capture the hill that unlocked the Turkish enclave of Agyrtas - Kioneli from the west. Together with Minister Damianidis
The Greek Army followed the footsteps of its European counterparts regarding its armament. From smoothbore muskets, it was equipped with front-loading rifled rifles and finally, in 1868, the first breech-loading rifles. The first breech-loading rifle in service with the Greek Army was the French
At the start of the war the Greek Army had 12,200 machine guns of three types. The Model 1915 Chauchat submachine gun was by far the worst submachine gun of all time, although it was used by almost all Allied armies in World War I. The Greek Army procured them in 1917 (about 3,500 of them). The r
In thousands of preserved papyri, it is surprising to note that the situation of women in the Greco-Roman period of Egypt was, in certain matters, much better than any other time before the 20th century. Although the women were not citizens and, with few exceptions, needed a guardian to represent th