The Poles have a tradition of cavalry since the Middle Ages. In the Renaissance their Winged Hussars made history, crushing the Turks at the gates of Vienna. Cavalry was instrumental in Polands victory over the Soviets in 1920-21. The Polish horsemen showed incredible heroism in 1939 fighting agains
The sources we currently have are woefully scarce . In any case, we can highlight some such as the famous Tabera-Fonseca lawsuit, or the work of the Galician hidalgo Vasco de Aponte Recount of the old houses of the Kingdom of Galicia, written in the first decades of the 16th century. Among the curre
The RC-47 was not the only version of the extraordinary Dakota to be used in Vietnam, more than 30 years after the aircrafts first prototype flew. There was especially the AC - 47 attack, nicknamed Puff, the Magic Dragon (title of an American song). It carried very effective armament consisting of t
A new scientific analysis of the composition of Roman denarii has provided new insights into a financial crisis briefly mentioned by Roman statesman and writer Marcus Tullius Cicero in his essay on moral leadership, De Officiis , and has resolved an age-old debate. Researchers from the University o