Portrait of Gabriel Jogand-Pagès, known as Léo Taxil, born in Marseilles in 1854 and died in Sceaux in 1907. In the background, the reception of an apprentice on an engraving in a history of Freemasonry published in 1843 • ISTOCK Complete Revelations on Freemasonry :it was under this “sensationa
However, writes General de Lattre, if the 2nd C.A. did not have the deserved joy of entering Alsace first, it is to him that it owes its deliverance in part. By annihilating an enemy division, by drawing into the mountains six battalions from the Belfort gap, four taken from the front of the 6th C.A
The Battle of the Berezina took place from November 26 to 29, 1812 near of the Berezina River (in present-day Belarus), between the French army of Napoleon I and the Russian armies of Kutusov, Wittgenstein and Tchitchagov, after the failure of the Russian Campaign Five months after crossing the Nie
Appeared in Italy in the Middle Ages, the condottieres or condottieri, condottiero in the singular, in Italian (“mercenaries”, from the Italian condotta, contract of hire), are leaders of mercenary armies. Demobilized regular soldiers or nobles in search of glory, they put their art of war at the s