May 878 The Battle of Ethandun took place between 6 and 12 May 878. It pitted the forces of Wessex, led by Alfred the Great, against the Danish invaders of Guthrum the Elder. The battle lasted most of the day and ended in victory for Alfred, who fought behind a defensive rampart of shields remini
Alfred, sometimes written Ælfred (born between 846 and 849 and died on October 26, 899), was king of Wessex from 871 until his death, and king of all the Anglo-Saxons from 878, without ever controlling all of English territory . Fourth son of King Æthelwulf and most likely the latters first wife, Os
He is said to have been king of Northumbria from 862 until his death in 867. Not descending from the royal line, he shares the throne with his competitor Osberth. The latter reigns over Bernicia and Aelle over the Deira (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle). and who had just taken York.It was in front of York th
We call Turks the various peoples whose language is part of the Turkic language family. An estimated 150 million people belong to this group. They are probably the descendants of large tribes originating in Central Asia. Terminology The oldest mention of the term “Turk” that has reached us comes
The Timurids or Timurids (in Persian:Teymouriān) are the descendants of Tamerlane who, between internal and external struggles and some periods of stability, governed his empire from 1405 to 1507, when it fell into the hands of the Uzbeks of the Chaybanid dynasty , descendants of Genghis Khan. Like
Subötai (c. 1176 - 1248) was the leader of the reindeer people, a tribe in central Mongolia. He participated in the conquests of Asia with Genghis Khan. He was one of its best generals and is considered one of the greatest strategists of all time. In particular, he drew up the Khwarezm invasion pla
On November 25, 1970, in protest against the decline of Japanese society, Yukio Mishima, an internationally renowned novelist, publicly committed hara-kiri (Sepuku). This ritual suicide horrified the world and Japan:not only had the country just lost one of its best writers, but the event showed tha
Ögödei (generous, Mongol Ögöödei, from ög-:give and -dei, derivation suffix), third son of Genghis Khan and his main wife Börte, born c. 1189, and second supreme khan of the Mongols from 1227 until his death in 1241. He set up an efficient post system in the vast Mongol Empire. His widow Töregene as
The Mongols currently live in Mongolia, Russia and China, particularly in northern Mongolia (the region of Lake Baikal) annexed by Russia and in Inner Mongolia. The two Mongolian ethnic groups in Russia are the Buryats, east of Lake Baikal, and the Kalmyks, north of the Caspian Sea. They are current
Its elaboration and its discipline were the work of the khan, a relentless reflection of his brilliant clairvoyance. It was based on the ancestral decimal system:squads of ten men forming a hundred, the hundreds a thousand, the thousands a tumen, or ten thousand horsemen. And in every company of ten
During the 13th century, hordes of Mongols swept through Asia and founded an empire that stretched from Eastern Europe to Korea. In 1260, after the fall of Imperial China to the barbarians, the Mongols began to look further east, towards Japan. In 1274, a Mongol army landed on the southern island of
Symbol of the samurai caste, the katana is a saber (curved blade with a single edge) of more than 60 cm. It is worn slipped into the belt, cutting edge pointing upwards at the left side of the belt (downwards also if the wearer is a rider). The wakizashi-katana set is called the daisho. Some periods
Golden Horde, Mongol dynasty descended from Djötchi, the eldest son of Genghis Khan, who conquered and controlled the Russian steppes during the 13th and 14th centuries, among others. 1237-1242:Mongols conquered Russian principalities and ruined all Russian cities except Novgorod (kyiv, Vladimir, S
Genghis Khan Genghis Khan , born Temüjin , (c.1162 - 1227) was the first Mongol emperor. He used his political and military genius to unify the Turkic and Mongol tribes of Central Asia and thus found his empire, the largest of all time. He led the conquest of most of Asia, including China, Russia,
Mongol armies of the 13th century If the armament of the Mongols largely remained in the shadow of the conquests, it is thanks to him, and to original tactics, that the Mongol successes were possible. The Mongols had only two main weapons:the spear and the bow. Maces and sabers were only used as a
Cossack listen listen (Polish:Kozak; plural:Kozacy; Russian:Kazak (Казак); plural:Kazaki (Казаки), Ukrainian:Kozak (Козак); plural:Kozaky (Козаки)) is the name given to a group of people from Eastern Europe and parts of Europe adjacent to Asia. The Cossack name is derived from the Tatar:quzzaq whic
Arrow riders were an essential element of the Mongol army during the time of Genghis Khan and his successors, ensuring the transmission of messages of all types in the vast expanses dominated by the Mongols, at the average speed of 1400 to 1800 km per week (except winter or rough terrain). To achie
The Battle of Mohi, or Battle of the Sajó River, (April 11, 1241) was the main battle between the Mongols led by Batû-Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan in the Kingdom of Hungary during the Mongol invasion of Europe. Just before dawn the Hungarian defenders found themselves subjected to a hail of arrow
Babur (February 14, 1483 - December 26, 1530) was a famous conqueror of India and the founder of the Mughal dynasty. His name is Zahir ud-din Muhammad, but he receives the nickname of Bâbur, meaning the leopard. Descendant of Tamerlane by Miran Shah and Genghis Khan by his mother, he was born on Feb
Attila (405-453) was the king of the Hun tribes, a tribe originating from the steppes of Central Asia established in the Danubian plain. According to Roman historiography, he reigned from 434 to 453 over the Hunnic Empire (a large part of central Europe and central Asia) from which he was designated
Raoul Charles Magrin-Vernerey, better known under the pseudonym of MONCLAR, was truly an extraordinary warrior figure, the very type of Legion officer as shown by legend and popular literature. Ralph Monclar, born February 7, 1892 in Budapest (Hungary), died in Val-de-Grâce, June 3, 1964 is a French
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 precipitate Japans surrender, September 2, 1945 . The formal surrender is signed aboard the US battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, and marks the end of World War II. Begun on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War saw hundreds of th
Remembrance Day today, August 6, 2020, as it marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in human history. It was 8:15 (Japan time) when the Little Boy atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima. The bomb claimed the lives of approximately 140,000 people, while 69% of the buildings we
The uprising of August 1, 1944 holds a unique place in the collective memory and historical consciousness of Poles. And this is because the Nazis had suppressed the uprising with a brutality rare, even for themselves. 200,000 people, most of them civilians, died, many of them in mass executions. Hun