Montgomery then devised his plan. It was a question of blasting the crust of the German cover by means of a series of airborne operations. By seizing the successive bridges which lie between the Dutch frontier and the Rhine (see map), he hoped to be able to clear the way for a rapid advance of the S
Features Country:FranceBrandt 81 mm mortar mle 27/31Calibre:81.4 mm.Length:from barrel, 1.26 mfrom bore, 1.16 m.Weight:in action, 59.700 kgof the barrel, 20,700 kg of the bipod, 18,500 kg of the base plate, 20,500 kg.Pointing in height:+ 45° to + 80°Pointing in direction:8° to 12° depending on ele
If history has shown us anything, it is that great personalities like Charlemagne, usually achieve great achievements. Given the previous facts, we can think that few imagined that on October 9, 768, that the young man of just over 20 years who had just inherited a part of the kingdom of the Franks,
1805 was a year of triumph for French arms. And yet the French triumph could have been nullified by the opening of a new front, in southern Italy, as Old Albion, Britain, as another Athens, could with her wooden walls strike the French Empire in the soft, Mediterranean of, hypogastric. So while e