The Esquiline is a district in the historic center of Rome whose etymology comes from the ancient castra priora equitum singularium , that is, the headquarters of the Equites Singulares Augusti (imperial guard on horseback), which was located on the neighboring Celio hill. In ancient times it was
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic caused by the bacterium Yersina pestis which spread across Asia and Europe during the 14th century. It was transmitted by fleas, house mice or by contact with another infected person. On the European continent, the pandemic lasted from 1347 to 1353 . It
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, known as Lord Kitchener, born in Ballylongford (County Kerry, Ireland) on June 24, 1850 and died off the coast of Orkney on June 5, 1916, was a British marshal and politician. Youth Horatio Herbert Kitchener was the third child of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Horatio Kitchen
Guard mounted hunter This regiment had been formed in great part by the guides of Bonaparte, from whom it had kept the brilliant costume à la hussarde. It had a composition identical to that of the regiment of horse grenadiers, except for the height of the velites, which was slightly lower:1.73 m