In 1743 the War of the Austrian Succession was in its third year. The conflicts raged from one end to the other in Europe, but also in America and Asia, in a war that was not unjustly characterized by many as the First World War. Italy was another front of this war where Spaniards, Neapolitans an
In 37 AD. BC, Caligula ordered the construction of two majestic ships on Lake Nemi, 30 kilometers south of Rome. Moored on the banks of the lake, they were not intended for navigation. It is believed that they served as places of entertainment for the use of the emperor and his court, but also as a
“France… Tête darmée”. Historiography, and especially Napoleonic hagiography, will indicate that they were the last words spoken by the Emperor during the last moments of his agony on the afternoon of May 5, 1821. Certainly the man who would be remembered not for forging an empire from the dictato
Context Immediately after the collapse of the USSR in the fall of 1991, uncertainty reigned among US intelligence services about the attitude of the forces of the former USSR, in particular the strategic missile forces that remained under Russian command. From the United States Navys perspective, t