In the midst of those technological innovations, the inhabitants of the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, the Phoenicians, sailed along the Egyptian and North African coast until they reached the other shore, the westernmost, the furthest or Iberian as the Greeks called it. This event occurred bet
In 1390, during a truce in the Hundred Years War, three French knights (Marshal Boucicaut, Renault de Roye and Chamberlain de Saimpy) challenged anyone who wished to confront them to come to Saint-Inglevert, near Calais. . The candidates for the game, which took place from March 20 to April 20, nota
The Armistice of November 11, 1918 ended the First World War. Signed in Rethondes in a wagon belonging to General Foch, it signals the end of the fighting between the Allies and Germany, which has been going on for four years. Despite the memory of the dead, the ceasefire is welcomed in France by an
In February 1940 the German navy decided to attack British fishing vessels in the North Sea in the area of Dodger Bank. The mission codenamed Operation Wikinger (Viking) was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla. The flotilla consisted of the destroyers Z1 Leberecht Maass, Z3 Max Schultz, Z4 R