Infantry division Equipment :French then British then American Battles: Dakar Gabon Eritrea Syria Bir HakeimThe Alamein Tunisia Italy Provence Vosges Alsace Authion Historical Commander Raoul Magrin-Vernerey Paul Gentleman Marie Peter Kœnig Edgard of Larminate Diego Brossets Pierr
Posthumous portrait of Nicolas Machiavelli, by Santi di Tito. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Nicolas Machiavelli was born in 1469, into a family of minor nobility with land ties to Montespertoli, the original stronghold. A whole lineage dedicated to public functions, to the servic
We know the personal investment of Napoleon III to ensure that the French army was equipped with a truly modern rifle; it will be the rifle model 1866, said Chassepot. Unfortunately the effort stopped there and the handgun did not follow, as it is true that it had never had any real tactical value a
Some peoples have a special martial tradition of defying death. One of them is the Polish people who - lives parallel to the Greek - were for centuries slaves to three masters (Germans, Austrians and mainly Russians). When World War I broke out most of Poland was part of the tsarist empire. More