In 1715 the Turkish danger again began to be felt on the eastern borders of the Habsburg Empire. Turkish ambitions had been revived since 1711, when Mehmet Pasha with 260,000 men defeated Peter the Greats 40,000 men in battle of Prutus. Always following the same expansionist policy, the Turks, viola
Tsar of all the Russias, emperor and autocrat by divine right, Nicolas II married his cousin, Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1864, who converted to Orthodoxy and took the name of Alexandra Fiodorovna. During the war, rumors multiplied that the Empress would rule the country in secret, organizi
Red Sunday On the side of the revolutionaries, Gapon also led the Bolsheviks on January 22, 1905 in Petrograd, when the workers went to present the petition to the Tsar. Written by Gapon and signed by many Russians, it demanded more justice and protection from the Tsar, but also a decent salary, th
The Battle of Montebello took place on June 9, 1800 (20 prairial year VIII) near Montebello in Lombardy. It pitted the vanguard of the French army, commanded by Lieutenant-General Lannes, against Austrian troops, led by Deputy Field Marshal Ott. Context At the end of May 1800, General Melas, who co