The model 1777 rifle, which is the culmination of all the modifications made to the rifle since 1717, is the work of the gunner Gribeauval. Developed at the end of the Ancien Régime, this rifle was used during the long period of the wars of the Revolution and the First Empire. It is generally consid
The slat is a single-edged sword or a saber without curvature, which amounts to the same thing. The first examples are contemporaneous with the first swords, then it experienced a period of oblivion or, at least, very anecdotal uses to finally come back in force at the end of the 17th century and un
The Baker rifle was produced for the first time in 1800, and was used during all the campaigns of the Napoleonic wars in the brand new rifle regiments of the British army. These complemented the action of the voltigeurs, and were quickly nicknamed grasshoppers because of the color of their uniform.
It is easy to overestimate the losses caused by artillery during the Napoleonic Wars. Similarly, it is easy to underestimate its psychological effect. At Waterloo, all the guns (with the exception of the few howitzers present) were placed in battery in view of their objectives. Each room was a monst
William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He became Britains youngest prime minister when elected in 1783 at the age of 24 (although the term prime minister was not yet in use). He left the post in 1801 but became pri
William Wyndham Grenville (25 October 1759, Wotton House, Buckinghamshire – 12 January 1834, Burnham, Buckinghamshire), 1st Baron Grenville, Member of the Privy Council, was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister (11 February 1806 – 31 March 1807) of King George III. Grenville soon became a c
Thomas Picton (August 24, 1758 – † June 18, 1815) was a Welsh Major General of the English Army killed by a bullet to the head at the Battle of Waterloo. Waterloo His division formed the right of the Anglo-Dutch force during the battle, including the 92nd Gordons Highlander. This division pushed ba
Hudson Lowe, born June 28, 1769 in Galway (Ireland) and died January 10, 1844 in London (United Kingdom), is a British general. If the name of Hudson Lowe remained in the memories, it is because he was the jailer of the French Emperor Napoleon I on the island of Saint Helena (governor of the island
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Koutousov, Prince of Smolensk, born in 1745 in Saint-Petersburg and died on April 28, 1813 in Bunzlau in Silesia. General-in-chief of the armies of Russia, during the reign of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, winner of Napoleons Grande Armée during the Russian campaign
Henry William Paget (May 17, 1768 – April 29, 1854), 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, more generally known as Lord Uxbridge, was a British officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Cavalry at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. One of the strangest objects in the co
George III (born George William Frederick, June 4, 1738 – January 29, 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from October 25, 1760 until the union of the two countries on January 1, 1801; he then became King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also prince-elector
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (December 16, 1742, Rostock in Mecklenburg - September 12, 1819), Prince of Wahlstatt, was a Prussian general who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon I at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Prince of Wahlstadt, feld- Prussian marshal. He gave his name to a German
Frédéric-Guillaume (Friedrich Wilhelm) (1771-June 16, 1815) known as the black duke, is the son and successor of Duke Charles Guillaume Ferdinand of Brunswick, author of the Brunswick Manifesto. In France, he is also known as a Duke of Oels. He belongs to the family of the Guelphs (Welfen) who have
Charles-Guillaume-Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (9 October 1735, Wolfenbüttel - November 10, 1806, Ottensen) was a German general and prince. Subordinate Career He received an exceptionally broad and comprehensive education, and traveled in his youth through the Netherlands, France, and var
Arthur Wellesley (30 April 1769, Duncan-Castle, County Meath – 14 September 1852), 1st Earl then Marquess then Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who became a British soldier and politician. He is best known as Napoleons victor at Waterloo. He is often compared to John Churchill, Du
Alexander I Pavlovich Romanov (Александр I Павлович), better known as Alexander I (born in Saint-Petersburg, December 23, 1777 - died in Taganrog on December 1, 1825), son of Paul I and Sophie-Dorothée de Württemberg; Tsar of Russia from March 23, 1801 until his death, King of Poland from 1815 to 18
Moscow institutions:the Zemsky Sobor The duma has existed for a long time , an institution that brings together boyars and whose function is to take care of all state affairs. The boyars who are part of the Duma give their agreement or not on the decisions of the sovereign. The zemsky sobor , creat
At the end of the Middle Ages, in 1486, appears Malleus Maleficarum , the first treatise on demonology. It is with the omnipresence of religion, and even of the Inquisition, that peoples distrust of the Evil One grows. At a time when everything is justified by the Bible and the word of the priests,
The main philosophers of the Enlightenment The leading philosophers of the Enlightenment were mostly upper class scholars. A particularly well-known philosopher is Voltaire, and his work Candide whose character endures in optimism. We also talk a lot about Denis Diderot, who contributed to the real
An inconvenient formalism Although the Russian Church has evolved at the same pace as the Muscovite state, its religious formalism is beginning to disturb. In the West, the Reformation already took place in the 16th century. In Russia, the Church takes up a lot of space to the point of being proud
The Society of Jesus was created in 1534 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, in the context of the Catholic reaction against the advance of Protestantism. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe 16th century was one of the most troubled in world history, given that throughout its decades several events of great impac
In the spring of the year 772 Charlemagne led a large army of Franks against the Saxons. He first took the fortress of Eresburg and then went into Saxon territory, destroying everything and obtaining a great booty of gold and silver. But before leaving the place he had the Irminsul destroyed. . T
The inventor of this artifact, secret for now, He was Manuel Daza Gómez, former Carlist Lieutenant captured in Fortuna —Murcia— in 1874 and since then exiled in Yecla where he lived with his family. Mr. Daza —as the newspapers of the time referred to him— was born in Alhama de Murcia in 1853, studie
In June 1942, the US submarine USS Grunion was sent to Alaska to patrol for Japanese vessels. On July 30, after being ordered to return, the submarine disappeared with 70 men aboard. After 77 years, researchers have discovered the hull of the lost American ship, along a volcanic dike off the coast o