Appeared in Italy in the Middle Ages, the condottieres or condottieri, condottiero in the singular, in Italian (“mercenaries”, from the Italian condotta, contract of hire), are leaders of mercenary armies. Demobilized regular soldiers or nobles in search of glory, they put their art of war at the s
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
The Iraqi air force received, in 1980, 12 MiG-25P fighters, 12 MiG-25R reconnaissance and six MiG-25PU trainers. However, these aircraft belonged to export versions and were inferior to the Soviet ones. Iraq demanded and won the aircraft upgrade. Iraqi MiG-25s first flew over Iran in May 1982. Ho
The 18th and 19th centuries were the period when all armies relied on the leiocan frontal musket as their primary infantry weapon. However, a gunsmith in Tyrol saw into the future. Bartholomäus Girandoni lived in Tyrol. Traditionally the area was the source of the best light infantry, the famous