- The Battle of Gettysburg (1863): This battle lasted for three days, from July 1st to July 3rd, and was the turning point of the American Civil War.
- The Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943): This battle lasted for nearly six months, from July 1942 to February 1943, and was a major turning point in World War II.
- The Battle of Verdun (1916): This battle lasted for ten months, from February to December 1916, and was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War I.
Pope Innocent III called for a crusade in August 1198, just months after his election, to liberate the Holy Land that Saladin had reconquered. The plan is to seize Egyptian ports to exchange them for Jerusalem. The kings of France and England were then at war while the Holy Roman Emperor still conte
The Royal Navy did not learn until much later why Italian forces had pulled away from the bulk of their own fleeing squadron. The explanation was simple:after the English air attack at dusk, the Italians had quietly moved towards their bases until Iachino, shortly after 8 p.m., intercepted a signal
Insulting of the Pope by Frank King Charlemagne Charlemagne, the French ruler who ended the Lombardy rule from Rome at the invitation of Pope Adrian (I) in AD 772, was a powerful king. So he had no difficulty in establishing his dominance in Rome. The Pope thought that after the liberation from the
Jedburgh is an operation carried out by the Allied forces during the Second World War, which aimed to coordinate the action of the maquis with the general plans of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and to equip the resistance fighters, in France and the Netherlands , with a view to