A few days ago we dedicated an article to the Valdevez Challenge, a tournament that was played in the Middle Ages to avoid a battle between León and the nascent Kingdom of Portugal that would have left both armies diminished before a common enemy, the Almoravids. We also commented that it was not an
The Prussian Army during the 42 years of Fredericks rule, was the most perfect military machine in the world. The Prussian monarch himself was also the initiator of the new military doctrine of his army, which he retrieved from ancient Greek history, of which he was a fan. Before setting out on
Erich Ludendorff, born on April 9, 1865 in Kruszewnia near Posen in Prussia (today Poznań in Poland), died on December 22, 1937 in Tutzing in Bavaria, was general-in-chief of the German armies during the First World War, from 1916 to 1918. He actively supported the Nazi movement in its early days (1
Fertile Crescent , the region where the first settled agricultural Municipalities des Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin probably early 9th millennium v . Chr. Arose . The term was coined by the American orientalist James Henry Breasted popularized . Britannica