The English voyages of exploration began with John Cabot in 1497. John Cabot, known in Venetian as Zuan Chabotto was an Italian navigator and Explorer whose voyage on English ships under a license from Henry VII resulted in the first recorded European expedition from England to reach North America, since the Viking expeditions to Vinland approximately five centuries earlier
Erich Ludendorff, born on April 9, 1865 in Kruszewnia near Posen in Prussia (today Poznań in Poland), died on December 22, 1937 in Tutzing in Bavaria, was general-in-chief of the German armies during the First World War, from 1916 to 1918. He actively supported the Nazi movement in its early days (1
At the end of the 18th century, France was in the midst of a political revolution. Royal power was overthrown on August 10, 1792:that day, the Sans-Culottes came to seek Louis XVI and the royal family at the Tuileries, abolishing the monarchy. The Victory of Valmy, on September 20, is the first mili
Historian Christopher Clark, author of the book The Sleepwalkers:How Europe Went to War in 1914, spoke to Deutsche Welle about the commonalities of World War I. with the war in Ukraine. Your book The Sleepwalkers made people rethink whether Germany started World War I, or whether many European state
There are times when fortune plays very bad tricks on a person. This could also be argued by Korean Yank Kyung Yong, who, from 1938 to 1944, found himself fighting in three different armies, the Japanese, the Soviet and the German. In 1938 Korea was under Japanese occupation. The Japanese forcib