The Charton column:a disparate convoyCao Bang, October 3, 6 am. The fifteen outposts of the hedgehog defending the city are abandoned one after the other. The last position evacuated, the 150 tons of ammunition stored in the Citadel jump. It is a disparate convoy that engages on the R.C.4. The troop
From the 13th century with the Crusades, the development of trade with the Arab world and stories like that of Marco Polo, Europe dreams of new horizons. In the XIVth century, the gold deposits were exhausted and the Ottoman Empire blocked the silk road:it became urgent to explore new routes to find
In the eleventh-twelfth century AD, a new style of cathedral construction developed in Western Europe called the Gothic style. The size of the churches in this style is kept very large. In this, the load of large and heavy roofs is placed on the panels outside the main building. Thin pillars are mad
The British learned at great cost in blood the value of rifled rifles during the American Revolutionary War. In 1800 Ezekiel Bakers design was chosen to equip the Experimental Rifle Corps. During the tests 12 shots were fired of which 11 hit the target, a 1.8 m diameter round wood at a distance o