In 1954 the Algerian war began. But faced with a conflict that escalated, successive governments were unable to provide an adequate response to the decolonization movement that had been underway since the end of the Second World War. In 1958, de Gaulle returned to power, proposing some Algerian auto
October 23, 1766 (Paris) - May 29, 1847 (St-Etienne) Marquis de Grouchy, Emmanuel An aristocrat, the son of an officer, Grouchy went through the Strasbourg artillery school in 1780, then in the cavalry and in the kings bodyguards with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Supporter of new ideas, brot
On the afternoon of April 30, 1945, the Red Army was already in the center of Berlin, very close to the chancellery. Hitler determined not to fall into the hands of the Soviets turns the revolver on him. Remaining loyalists burn the bodies of the Führer and his wife Eva Braun and bury them near the
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in the Arctic, by James Wilson Carmichael. 1847. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Before the opening of the Panama Canal, the only way for ships to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was to skirt the American continent from th