If some Gallic leaders thought they could take advantage of the intervention To shake off the German threat out of hand, they quickly became aware that they had been trying to fight fire with fire. According to The Gallic Wars , panegyric with which Caesar justifies and extols his conquest campaign,
We have previously commented on this blog that the publication in 2018 from the book Basque combatants in the Second World War in the Desperta Ferro publishing house, he left unfinished some already planned sets, which were not done due to lack of time and/or means, like the one we present here. Tod
Dear reader One month of September 2010, a decade ago now, the number 1 magazine on political and military history of Antiquity and the Middle Ages Desperta Ferro appeared , with a circulation of only two thousand copies and a very limited distribution to a handful of bookstores and specialized s
On November 6, 1860, a wave of Stupor spread throughout the American states, especially those south of the Mason-Dixon line[1]. Abraham Lincoln, candidate of the very recent Republican Party, had been elected president! Considered by many citizens of the South an anti-slavery revolutionary willing t
In exploring the reasons for the Confederacy to wage a campaign in New Mexico, the first relevant character is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America , who had always been a strong defender of the doctrine of “Manifest Destiny”[1] and, more specifically, of embodying it by o
One of Sibleys advantages in their offensive against Fort Union it was that, having once supervised the construction of some of the complexs buildings, he was well acquainted with the layout of its defences; the other was that news had reached him that the eight hundred men stationed at the post w
No good news came from nearby Poitiers. Al-Gafiqi had looted the abbey of San Hilario de Poitiers and thoroughly devastated the suburbs and surroundings of the rich city that, sheltered behind its walls, he could not take. He also could not besiege it before eliminating the new enemy army that await
Year 615, the Visigoth king Sisebutus he is carrying out a harsh military campaign, naval and land, against the Roman-Byzantine positions in Hispania. Malaca, Malaga, has just fallen into his power. The combats are fierce and the Visigothic army and fleet are imposing themselves on the Romans at th
Count Cassius and the beginnings of the Banu Qasi dynasty At the time of the Islamic conquest of Hispania there were some local lords who opted for the path of submission, negotiation, capitulation, conversion to Islam to maintain their status of privilege. One of them was the famous Tudmir (Teodom
As you will know if you have been following us for a long time, we are little of Black Friday and more to lend a hand. A help that, needless to say, this year is needed more than ever. That is why, as in previous years around this time, we offer you an alternative possibility:the IV Human Friday aga
We can affirm that speaking of the War Spanish civil and not citing Belchite is impossible . By this name is known the military operation that the Government of the Republic planned to take Zaragoza in August 1937, an operation that failed in its initial objective, Zaragoza, would go down in history
We wanted to start with a reference to the meaning of the scenography in the theater historically, until the birth of cinema changed everything with the beginning of the 20th century. The Seventh Art, with its recordings, dispensed with immediacy and the direct relationship with the viewer, breaking
Far from being an archaic element, destined to Disappearing due to presumed obsolescence, the pike was, at the beginning of the 16th century, a weapon that had caused a considerable tactical transformation in just a few decades. In the Burgundian Wars (1474-1477), the great squadrons of Swiss pikeme
Unlike the first half of the 16th century, the decline in pitched battles in favor of sieges, coups, skirmishes, and other minor operations fundamentally affected combat between infantry formations, despite which, as we shall see, the pike continued to retain an important role. transcendental in all
Dear readers Just a month ago we took an important step by starting to digitize our book catalogue, and our premiere could not have been better. The six titles that we published in that first batch, which were followed by another eight (last day to acquire them with a 50% discount!), have had an ext
Carreto became an influential figure in the political and courtly life, interacting with such important figures as Don Luis de Haro, but above all he was very close to the monarch himself, Felipe IV. During the ten years he lived in Madrid, he must have known perfectly that regal entertainment space
The sources we currently have are woefully scarce . In any case, we can highlight some such as the famous Tabera-Fonseca lawsuit, or the work of the Galician hidalgo Vasco de Aponte Recount of the old houses of the Kingdom of Galicia, written in the first decades of the 16th century. Among the curre
The only women in the United States who wore a uniform at the time United were, in addition to the nurses, the ten thousand young women who had just enlisted in the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (Female Auxiliary Corps of the Army). Created in May 1942 under the slogan Free a man for combat, it sou
In early 1943, after his crushing defeat at El Alamein , the Afrika Korps retreated towards Tripoli pursued by the British. Hitler wanted him to stop retreating and engage Eighth Army in an epic battle in which he would be wiped out without having surrendered. Fortunately for Rommel, Kesselring had
He was no stranger to the Spanish tradition (nor to the European) resort to the requisition or rental of boats or squadrons belonging to individuals or to hire the services of these to supply their naval needs, a practice from the Middle Ages[1] that continued to be used during a good part of modern
Hellenism is understood to mean the period of dominance of Greek culture in the ancient world that followed the death of Emperor Alexander the Great. By Me. Cláudio FernandesThe concept of Helenism was first used by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884) to characterize the process
Harvey presents the beating heart of a small animal to expound his theory of circulation before King Charles I, by Ernest Board (1877-1934). • WIKIMEDIACOMMONS In 1628, the English physician and anatomist William Harvey published in Frankfurt his Anatomical Exercise on the Movement of the Heart
The First World War It took place between July 28, 1914 and November 11, 1918. It involved all the great powers of the world that lined up on two opposing sides:on the one hand, the Allies of the Triple Entente, and, on the other, the Central Powers of the Triple Alliance. They declared war on each
Although the war in 1918 was essentially a fight of infantry, the Americans had powerful armour, artillery and air support; they could field 189 Renault Ft17 light tanks, nearly all of them under the command of the original, and brilliant, Lieutenant-Colonel George Smith Patton Junior, the same man