Traditionally, the great trump card of Athens over Sparta in that long rivalry they maintained for primacy in the Greek world was their navy, thanks to which they were able to compensate for the unstoppable war machine of the Spartan army on land. However, after the trial for blasphemy of his most p
Largest country in South America, Brazil is beyond the clichés a country rich in history strongly influenced by Portuguese colonization. Pedro Álvares Cabral took possession of it in the name of the King of Portugal in 1500 and the colony quickly became prosperous, attracting the covetousness of the
The Russian Army of the 16th century did not differ substantially, but only slightly, from its counterparts of the 14th and 15th centuries. Its bulk consisted of cavalry, native and mercenary divisions. The Cavalry was, in principle, divided into heavy and light. The heavy cavalry, in turn, was main
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Koutousov, Prince of Smolensk, born in 1745 in Saint-Petersburg and died on April 28, 1813 in Bunzlau in Silesia. General-in-chief of the armies of Russia, during the reign of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, winner of Napoleons Grande Armée during the Russian campaign