Since 1613, when Mikhail Romanov, the first tsar of the eponymous dynasty, ascended the throne, the question of further modernization of the Russian Army was raised. Already in the preceding 14 years (the time of trouble, as it is known in Russian history), from 1599 when Ivans son and successor Feo
If we talk about the sieges that Julius Caesar experienced, Alesia will immediately come to mind, where he defeated the Gallic leader Vercingetorix after a month and a half of fighting and after having himself been besieged, when an enemy army unexpectedly appeared in the rear. He precisely he would
Polish winged hussars trace their origin to Serbian and Hungarian hussars of the late Middle Ages. But in contrast to them, the Polish hussars were heavy shock cavalry. The oldest reference to the winged hussars is from 1500. However, it is believed that their units had been formed earlier. Offic
The mythical lost continent Atlantis has the famous name, but Adria is a real lost continent that is largely buried under Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, thus under Greece. For the first time, geologists believe they are now able to reconstruct the almost 250-million-year-old history of the l