There was never an actual sword in the stone. The legend comes from the 12th century and tells of a sword pulled from an anvil embedded in a stone by King Arthur, who proved his worthiness to rule.
The 24th Colonial Infantry Regiment is a unit of the French Army. It is the only regiment of the navy troops to be still stationed in its original garrison, where it was created in 1902; it therefore well deserves the name of Royal Catalan, unofficial of course, but which it has always been known in
September 1792 to October 1795:during the French Revolution, an assembly called the National Convention is in power. It is at the origin of the First Republic. One of his first decisions was to recruit by lot 300,000 men for the war against the European monarchies:Austria, Prussia, Spain and England
In the year 1833 workers in a quarry on Mount Bryn yr Ellyllon (literally Hill of the Fairies ) in Mold, a town in the county of Flintshire in North Wales, found a prehistoric burial mound containing a simple stone-lined tomb. It contained the remains of an individual on which a golden object had be
One of the great concerns of Philip the Fair, the great affair of his reign is the conflict with the Holy See, the clash with Boniface VIII. The first incident broke out in 1296. In January, Philippe, always short of money, obtained from the Assembly of the Clergy the lifting of a tenth. Protest by