Victory won by Charles Martel over the Muslims of Spain in 732 or 733. To stem the advance of the latter, who ravaged his lands under the direction of their governor Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah, the Duke of Aquitaine Eudes n I have no other resource than to go and implore the help of the mayor of th
Boris Kustodiev, The Bolshevik, 1920 January 22, 1905, Red Sunday, marked the end of Tsarism. While demonstrators come to ask for help from Nicolas II, like children before their beloved father, his uncle, who replaces the tsar that day, sees a revolted crowd who is angry with the tsar and the aut
The Crusades Room in the Palace of Versailles is part of the museum dedicated to all the glories of France, desired by King Louis-Philippe and opened in 1843. • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS The Crusades have long been, since the Middle Ages in fact, as much an object of history as of memory. With increased
This is the story of a family who settled on the throne of a principality that seemed destined to disappear, and ended up reigning over a sixth of the Earth. During the three centuries that their reign lasted, the Romanovs succeeded in enlarging the Russian Empire by an average of 50,000 square kilo