Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier (°1768 Le Cateau-Cambrésis - †1835 Paris), Duke of Treviso, Marshal of the Empire (1804) He was the son of Antoine-Charles-Joseph Mortier, deputy to the States General. He entered as a captain in the 1st Battalion of Northern Volunteers. Entering the army as a
Punic Wars were armed conflicts between Rome and Carthage, between 264 and 146 BC, being won by the Romans, who consolidated their power in the Mediterranean Sea. The Punic Wars were armed conflicts between Rome and Carthage , between 264 and 146 BC. Carthage, located in North Africa, had the contr
In 355 AD the situation in the western part of the Roman Empire was just not good. The Germans (Alemanni and Franks), had breached the border of the Rhine and invaded as far as Gaul. The emperor Constantius then ordered his cousin – one of the few relatives he had left alive – Julian, the later empe
Normally, when a war is long enough, a multitude of actions of all kinds are recorded:large-scale campaigns, large and small battles, ambushes, rapid commando interventions... Sometimes very imaginative operations are attempted that, if successful, praise their opponents. author and make him a tacti