Franklin , unofficial state (1785–90) of United States , the the eastern part of todays Tennessee includes and extends to unclaimed areas to the west. Britannica Quiz United States of America:Fact or Fiction? You may be familiar with New York and Nebraska, but there are 11 US sta
If history has shown us anything, it is that great personalities like Charlemagne, usually achieve great achievements. Given the previous facts, we can think that few imagined that on October 9, 768, that the young man of just over 20 years who had just inherited a part of the kingdom of the Franks,
The idea of the intervention was not only born by initiative of Napoleon III . Before the landing of the French imperial troops, the conservatives, who had been defeated in the final War of Reform, had contacted numerous courts in Europe to offer the country to some European prince[1], and their r
The Thirty Years War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with human losses comparable to the First World War, in the order of 8 million souls. The war is characterized by some as a religious conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestants, but that was not all. Like all wars, this one –