Far from being an archaic element, destined to Disappearing due to presumed obsolescence, the pike was, at the beginning of the 16th century, a weapon that had caused a considerable tactical transformation in just a few decades. In the Burgundian Wars (1474-1477), the great squadrons of Swiss pikeme
The Hehe or Wahehe in Swahili are a people of 800,000 souls today who fought heroically against the German colonialists in the late 19th century. and they even managed to achieve the most humiliating defeat of the arrogant Germans. The Hehe live in what is now southern Tanzania in eastern Africa
On that day, the 7th Cavalry it was not organized as it had been when it left Fort Lincoln the previous month, with four battalions of three companies spread over two wings. A few days ago, and after the relative fiasco of the expedition to the Tongue River by the left wing of the 7th under Major Re
The massacre of Protestants at Wassy under the aegis of the Duke of Guise triggers, in France, the 1st March 1562, a real war of religion. The legitimate heir under Salic law (which contains the rules of succession to the throne of France), Henry IV, who was first a Protestant leader, must, to ascen