Before the advance of the German forces, on May 26, 1940, the British Marshal John Gort , Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), ordered the evacuation of allied troops on French soil... France had fallen. From various ports along Frances northern coast, notably Dunkirk, more t
Between 1915 and 1923, the Turkish-Ottoman Empire carried out one of the greatest massacres ever seen in human history. This massacre became known as the Armenian Genocide. The 20th century was marked as a century of catastrophes and killings. The two world wars brought entire cities to destruction
Engraving depicting the arrival of Bougainville in Tahiti in April 1768 • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, youngest son of a notary from Châtelet in Paris, was already 27 years old when he boarded a long-distance ship for the first time. Indeed, he is making his first crossing of
Some of the topics that have interested me the most are that of the Spanish thirds and the history of the conquest and colonization of Latin America, which is why the existence of an official Spanish army during the conquest caught my attention. This is because conquest expeditions used to be carrie