On June 7, 1917, the British 2nd Army, under the command of English Field Marshal Herbert Plumer , began an offensive on the Western Front during the First World War, with the purpose of taking a small mountain range, as a natural fortress, between the Belgian towns of Messines and Ypres... the Batt
The Battle of Foksani is one of the most important of the Austrian and Russian war against the Turks. The war began as a Russo-Turkish war in 1787, but the following year the Habsburg Empire joined Russia on the side. In the mid-summer of 1789 a small Austrian army under the worthy general Princ
Unless considering pocket battleships as heavy cruisers, Germany did not begin to build ships of this type until the mid-1930s, when the Royal Navy gave up this design. The German Navy had three built and completed, the Hipper, Blücher and Prinz Eugen, a fourth was sold to the Russians, and a fifth
The Code of Hammurabi is a set of laws that were created around 1780 BC. in Mesopotamia. It gets its name because it is associated with the sixth Sumerian king, founder of the First Babylonian Empire, Hammurabi. History In one of the columns where part of the Code is written, Hammurabi receives t