Both in the Middle and Near East, Mesopotamia, China, Anatolia and the Greco-Roman world, there were great archives and libraries that have disappeared today. The last of all those great libraries was the Imperial Library in Constantinople. It was founded by Constantine the Great sometime between 3
5th century AD C. is a century of profound changes in Western Europe. The Roman Empire disappears from the game board, leaving its western provinces in the hands of the barbarian peoples. In Walking Through History we have touched on the subject on numerous occasions to talk about the events in the
Remembrance Day today, August 6, 2020, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in human history. It was 8:15 (Japan time) when the Little Boy atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima. The bomb claimed the lives of approximately 140,000 people, while 69% of the buildings we
In January 1704 Philip V ratified the order to that the Tercios reorganize themselves into regiments (see From Tercios to Regiments in Desperta Ferro Especiales XIX:The Tercios (VI) 1660-1704 ), in other words, that the Hispanic military system became a carbon copy of the French and that, during the