* North Africa: The Arabs conquered North Africa in the 640s and 650s, ending Byzantine rule in the region.
* The Balkans: The Slavs and Bulgars invaded the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries, and the Byzantines were forced to cede control of much of the region.
* The Middle East: The Arabs also conquered much of the Middle East in the 7th century, including Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.
William (Billy) Edward Singh was of Chinese descent. He was born in Australia in 1886 and early on he showed that he was an amazing shooter by overcoming the racist stereotypes of the time and achieving great victories in shooting competitions. On 24 October 1914 he was commissioned into the 5th
The other day we saw here the adventures of Felix Graf von Luckner, a German sailor with a bizarre life who practiced privateering aboard a sailboat during the First World War. Today we are going to tell another no less eventful story that also happened during that war and, likewise, began aboard a
Camerones fight The account of the Battle of Camerone has been read in these terms at every commemoration on April 30 since 1931:The French army besieged Puebla.The Legion had for mission to assure, on one hundred and twenty kilometers, the circulation and the security of the convoys. Colonel Jean
In military history there are often cases of armies that, harassed during their retreats, end up being decimated or even exterminated completely. The cases of the British who left Kabul or the Grand Armée returning from Russia are famous. But there is one little-known one that is somewhat surprising