As it happens with all the regiments that existed in the year 1899,[1] there is a copy of the history of the Alcántara Cavalry Regiment guarded in the General Military Archive of Segovia; however, it is surprising that everything that appears in said archive until the year 1851, after the reorganiza
In 1526 the huge army of Suleiman the Magnificent crushed the small army of the Hungarian king Laios at Mohács in southern Hungary. After this glorious victory, the Ottoman troops, after spreading death and destruction, conquered the rest of Hungary without a fight and reached Vienna, which they uns
René Mouchotte, born August 21, 1914 in Saint-Mandé and died August 27, 1943 above the Channel, French aviator of the Second World War. One of the first airmen to join England in 1940 from Oran via Gibraltar, Mouchotte is one of the great pilots of the Free French Air Force. Assigned to No. 245 Sq
The “Landing Ship, Tank” (LST on the list of ship registration codes of the US Navy or Bâtiment de Débarquement de Chars in the French Navy) is a type of vessel for amphibious operations created during World War II to unload heavy vehicles on unprepared places such as beaches. 1,051 of these ships