Victory won by Charles Martel over the Muslims of Spain in 732 or 733. To stem the advance of the latter, who ravaged his lands under the direction of their governor Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah, the Duke of Aquitaine Eudes n I have no other resource than to go and implore the help of the mayor of th
The Battle of Hastings took place on October 14, 1066 about ten kilometers north of the town of Hastings, in East Sussex. It opposes the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson, to Duke William of Normandy, and ends in a decisive victory for the latter. Hastings is part of the succession
Municipality of the Nord department located 12 km south-east of Lille and 3 km from Cysoing. It was between these two localities that, on July 27, 1214, the forces of the King of France Philippe Auguste and the coalition army of the English, Germans and Flemish met. Annoyed by the successes of the C
The Battle of Nicopolis took place on September 25, 1396 (some date it of 28) on the right (south) bank of the Danube (today Nikopol in Bulgaria). The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (Bajazet in French, son of Mourad I) and Prince Stefan Lazarevic of Serbia[2] defeated an unprecedented crusade led by Sigis
The Battle of Kosovo Polje, in Serbian Cyrillic Бој на Косову или Косовска битка, took place on June 28 in the Gregorian calendar or June 15 in the Julian calendar 1389 in Kosovo on the field of Blackbirds in Serbian kos means blackbird and ovo is a suffix indicating the place, Kosovo therefore mean
The yatagan is a Turkish weapon with a curved blade whose edge forms, towards the tip, a re-entrant curve. Probably derived from the machaira, this sword is 60 to 80 cm long. The yatagan gave its shape to the bayonets of the 19th century, because its shape (slightly flamed) allowed it to be fixed ve
Type Siege engineTime 12th century - 16th centuryNumber of servants 60 Weights and dimensions Mass counterweight from 10 to 18 tonsTotal length yard from 8 to 12 metersMass of the projectile 80 to 100 kgRange 200 mRate of fire 1 to 2 shots per hour The trebuchet is part of the medieval artillery
A salad is a round-shaped helmet, worn from the 15th century to the 16th century. The word comes from the Low-Latin caelum, which means sky, dome, and which gave the old Italian celata, Frenchified in salad. It is an evolution of the iron hat which took place during the first half of the 15th centur
A pike is a polearm, a long spear carried by an infantryman, primarily intended to counter cavalry charges. We can distinguish two periods, where it was a major weapon: in ancient Greece, where the Macedonian phalanx carried long pikes called sarisses, three to seven meters long (the pike designat
The morion is a European helmet in use in the 16th and 17th centuries, open, from the iron chapel and close to the cabasset1. It is characterized by its high crest. History, uses and evolution The morion would have appeared in Spain at the beginning of the 16th century and the French word is also d
The mercy is a kind of thin-bladed, two-edged or square-sectioned dagger or dagger. This weapon is mentioned as early as the 13th century.Description Mercy seems to have lasted longer than the dagger. It was fitted with quillons. This weapon, like the thrust or the halberd, was one of the few that
The helm is an emblematic cavalry helmet of chivalry, protecting the whole head. During Antiquity, the Greeks already wore a helmet recalling by its forms the medieval helm and the Roman helmet wrapped around the skull in exactly the same way, but they both left the face uncovered. When it first app
A hauberk is a type of male dress, or, from the point of view of armament, it is this same dress made of ring mail fabric (see ring mail and chain mail) and intended for body protection . Due to its annular mesh construction, this harness is flexible, unlike with numerous coats of arms and armour. I
A hatchet is an ax whose use is that of a weapon and not a tool. Its a sizeable weapon. The design, very simple, takes up that of the tool, namely a generally curved blade plugged into a handle of variable size and nature. The question of whether the tool preceded the weapon remains open because th
The francisque is a throwing ax that was used by the Merovingian and Carolingian Franks between the 5th and 8th centuries. Etymology The name francisca appears for the first time in the book Etymologiarum sive originum, libri XX by Isidore of Seville (v.570 – 636). It is the feminine of the adjecti
The framee was the traditional spear used in the High Middle Ages by Frankish warriors. It was shaped like a long javelin. The name as used by Gregory of Tours may also have designated different types of weapons (acute sword on the one hand, and on the other sword. according to the glossary of Johan
A flamberge (from the German Flammenschwert) is a type of sword blade, as is the colichemarde. Undulating in shape (“undulating like flame”) along the entire length, it is mainly found in three edged weapons: * the greatsword, the favorite weapon of the lansquenets, unit created on the model of Swi
Durandal is the name of the knight Rolands sword. The latters death in Roncesvalles in an ambush by Basques is recounted in Rolands song (where the Basques are replaced by the Moors). Sensing his end approaching, Roland tried to smash Durandal on a rock, to prevent her from being taken by the enemy
The roundel dagger is an auxiliary weapon used by European men-at-arms from the second half of the 14th century. It is characterized by the two metal roundels (washers) which form its guard and its pommel. These wheels are intended to form an unassailable mass when the fist armed with a soldiers gau
A scimitar is a type of saber with a curved blade mainly used in West Asia (Middle East). » There is very little information on the exact geographical origin of the scimitar. But everything seems to indicate that scimitar-shaped weapons were developed from those used by the Macedonians under Alexan
The known history of viet nam, over 2000 years long already, is fertile in upheavals. The Chinese invasions and the long periods of domination they entailed, the struggle for emancipation and territorial expansion, internal rivalry, the difficult unification of the Three Kys (Tonkin, Annam, Cochinch
The one who is considered the first Roman writer in history was born in Taranto around the year 284 BC. and he was Greek. Taranto was a Greek colony in Magna Graecia (the southern Italian peninsula) that had asked King Pyrrhus of Epirus for help in his fight against Rome. However, the defeat of this
The rebellion in Turnovo, Bulgaria that broke out in 1598 was a trans-Balkan effort. Its main organizer was the bishop of the city Dionysios Rallis, the Bulgarian boyar Teodor Balina from Nikopolis, the Croatian Pavel Dortic from Ragusa (todays Dubrovnik), the bishops Theophanes, Jeremiah, Methodios
Dear lovers of the most exalted ancient culture, today I would like to introduce you to none other than Philokles , one of the great persons of Egyptian national history . Doesnt ring a bell, you say? Could I introduce myself. The things Philokles dealt with were not all equally kosher, and history