The Battle of Ulm is an important victory won by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I over an Austrian army commanded by General Karl Mack, between 23 and 28 Vendémiaire Year XIV (15 and 20 October 1805). It was won mainly by skillful maneuvers by the Emperor, who pushed his opponent to lock himself in Ul
Vasa. Swedish 64-gun vessel. The Vasa was part of the naval program decided by King Gustav II Adolf in anticipation of Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). About 50 m long, 11.50 wide, it displaced 1,300 t and weighed nearly 1,070 tons. It had three decks, 48 24-pounder guns i
For us, these costly foreign trips are a means to the painstaking process of assimilating the history and culture of that country and then putting it on the pages as it is. Our family trip to Rome in the summer of 2019 was part of one such process. In this journey of eleven days from May 17 to May
The Tatars of Kazan, together with their fellow-citizens of Astrakhan and Crimea, were, for centuries, the main rivals of Russia. The Tatars, descendants of the Mongols of the Golden Horde, who conquered Russia, for about two centuries, raided Russian lands at regular intervals, spreading terror and