Henry V of England, born August 9, 1387 or September 16, 1387 at Monmouth in Wales and died August 31, 1422 at the Château de Vincennes, France; Duke of Cornwall and Lancaster, was King of England from 1413 to 1422. He was the second monarch from the House of Lancaster who succeeded the Plantagenets
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes represented in 1813 the death of the admiral and scholar Pliny the Elder, who sought to help the victims of the eruption. Augustins Museum, Toulouse • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Slight earthquakes have been sweeping the Gulf of Naples for several days. Simple unpredictable jo
Victory over Napoleon at Waterloo , June 18, 1815, opens the way to the world supremacy of the British Empire . Indeed, it is not to Europe that Britain will now turn its efforts, but to the rest of the world. It is the construction of the Empire, certainly already begun the previous century, but wh
Within the British Army, the Grenadier Guards are one of five infantry regiments of the Sovereigns Household Guard (Household Division). The Cavalry of the Guard being made up of the Horse Guards of the Household Cavalry Regiment, created by the amalgamation of the Life Guards and the Blues and Roya