The grenadiers, as a distinct type of infantry, appeared in the 17th century although incendiary, biological or explosive grenades existed centuries before. In the Austrian Army, the grenadiers wrote their own history especially during the difficult period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic
Politics makes strange bedfellows . This well-known phrase that is usually attributed by system to Winston Churchill could also be applied to war; after all, Clausewitz said that war is the continuation of politics by other means and, indeed, there are historical cases that are quite strange. One of
Do you see those images of rock concerts with thousands of hands of the spectators on high? Those of football fans celebrating a goal would also be worth it. Well, they will not deny me a certain resemblance to the photo. Only this corresponds to hands that moved almost ten millennia ago. It doesnt
Food is one of our basic needs, along with water. It doesnt take a genius to figure out why. Our body needs nourishment from all these different foods. Their lack has dire consequences for everyone, much less for hard-fought troops in the field. This also happened during the so-called Winter War,