Appeared in Italy in the Middle Ages, the condottieres or condottieri, condottiero in the singular, in Italian (“mercenaries”, from the Italian condotta, contract of hire), are leaders of mercenary armies. Demobilized regular soldiers or nobles in search of glory, they put their art of war at the s
“War is too serious a matter to be left in the hands of the military” . The ingenious phrase pronounced by the former prime minister of the French Third Republic, Georges Clemenceau, has come true many times throughout history with fudges such as the charge of the Light Brigade, the landing at the B
The four main precursors of the Enlightenment - Descartes, Bacon, Locke and Newton - were of fundamental importance in changing the mentality of European society. By Leandro CarvalhoThe Enlightenment was a current of thought that prevailed in Europe in the 18th century, called the century of enligh
Boina , ephemeral kingdom of Sakalava Westerners Madagascar . Native from southern Madagascar, the Sakalava migrated up the west coast in the mid-17th century under the leadership of Andriandahifotsy. When he died, one of his sons succeeded in taking over the dominion of south-west Madag