Meanwhile, the city of Ismailia and the beach were lit up. The innumerable tents which covered the banks of the freshwater canal, itself covered with the dahabiehs (Nile boats) which had transported the families of the pashas and those great notables of Egypt to Ismailia, formed a line of light whic
These, after having conquered the Iberian Visigoth domains1 they ran into the rugged mountains that guarded the shores of the Cterior Ocean , where those who refused to submit to the power of the crescent took refuge. The most famous of them was Pelayo2 , who, if you believe, could have been a nephe
Gaius Julius Caesar was involved early in the public life of Rome. Belonging to the camp of Marius he risked being killed by Sulla in the first great civil war. Caesar left Rome and participated in two campaigns in Lesvos and Cilicia. As soon as he was informed of Sullas death (78 BC), Caesar re
We could place the germ of the War of Reform in the American intervention of 1846. The young American army managed to defeat the Mexican in a series of decisive battles. The defeat in the war produced great discomfort in Mexico, since it meant the loss of important territories in the north, approxim