Convicts are executed with the guillotine during the French Revolution. Vintage engraving. • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS “The deputy Guillotin / In medicine / Very expert and very clever, / Made a machine / To purge the French body / Of all the people with projects / It’s the guillotine, oh ford! / Its the
Rifles. In 1800 Colonel Coote Manninghams experimental Rifle Corps was raised as the Riflemen and designated as the 95th Regiment on the General Army List. Meeting no difficulty in recruiting, this regiment had 3 battalions in 1809. Companies of these 3 battalions fought at Waterloo.The riflemens u
As in every war, in World War I there were civilian deaths, murders, mass executions. The Germans were repeatedly accused by the ANTATE of executions of civilians - which existed on a small scale - in Belgium and France, they were accused as barbaric murderers for the sinking of the ocean liner Lusi
Commodus (Latin:Imperator Caesar Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus Augustus Pius Felix Sarmaticus Germanicus Maximus Britannicus) (August 31, 161 – December 31, 192) was a Roman emperor who reigned from 180 to 192. Like Caligula, Nero and Domitian, his image is that of a cruel and bloodthirsty emperor