Andreas Hofer was born in 1767 in the Austrian province of Tyrol. His family ran an inn which he took over after his fathers death. At the same time he was involved in the trade of wine and horses. In 1791 he was elected a member of the local assembly of Tyrol, which enjoyed a status of autonomy
The Sicilian Vespers, the revolution of the Sicilian people against their French dAnjou overlords, that is, was one of the most important events in history while there was also Greek involvement. The rebellion broke out at Easter 1282 against the French who had occupied the island since 1266. The
The Battle of Narva was the first major battle of the Great Northern War. In this war, Sweden was fighting alone against huge Russia, its traditional rival Denmark and the united Poland-Saxony. The Russian Tsar Peter the Great had tried to make his still medieval country a modern European power.
After the defeat of Austria in 1805 and Prussia in 1806, Napoleon proceeded with his plan to reorganize the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Reich) based on French interests. The many small German states were either integrated with each other or dissolved, forming, under French tutelage,
The Hawker Typhoon was supposed to be designed as a replacement for the famous Hawker Hurricane fighter. Equipped with four 20mm guns. and equipped with the 2,200 hp Napier Saber 24-cylinder engine, the aircraft could develop a maximum speed of 652 km per hour and fly at a height of up to 10,360 m
HMS Warspite has been the legendary warship of the modern British Navy. He performed exceptionally well in both world wars. He served for 30 years, but unfortunately the old warrior, although he survived enemy missiles and torpedoes, did not have the luck he deserved. The vessel was 196.2 m long
The battle for Hill 3234 is one of many small but high-intensity conflicts that took place in Afghanistan between Soviet forces and the Mujahideen insurgents. This war, the Soviet Vietnam, according to many, was not decided by one or more major line battles, but by the totality of small conflicts, s
The Duchy of Oldenburg was one of the small German states that made up the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. It extended over a small area on the western shores of the Baltic, north of Bremen. The small duchy had a small army, consisting of only one infantry company and some garrison forces
In East Asia, World War II began in July 1937 with the Japanese invasion of mainland China. The main reason for the invasion was the perception of Japans lack of living space. Japan is a mountainous country with limited arable land. From 1868 to 1930 the Japanese population grew rapidly, from 30 mil
The Prussian Army had no tradition of using light infantry. Unlike the Austrians, who had a large number of snipers from their border with the Ottomans - the famous Gretzners - the Prussians, before Fredericks ascension to the throne, did not have any light infantry. The bulk of the light corps o
Dybol is a small town on the southern tip of the Jutland peninsula. The battle that decided the outcome of the Second Schleswig-Holstein War took place there. After the incorporation of the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein into the Kingdom of Denmark, Prussia and Austria declared war on Denmark
USS Scorpion was an American nuclear submarine of the Skipjack class. Commissioned in 1959. Nine years later she mysteriously disappeared south of the Azores while on patrol. The submarine stopped giving signs of life on May 21, 1968. The U.S. Navy admitted that the vessel disappeared on June 6
The war in Vietnam has been nicknamed the dirty war, as if there had ever been a clean war in history. However, in Vietnam it was the nature of the struggle – guerilla warfare – that made it a hard, savage struggle from the start, beyond the rules of war. Both sides, as almost always happens in a
TheGloster Gladiator, the RAFs last biplane fighter, was already a flying anachronism when it entered service. Despite this, he acted and even remarkably in the initial stage of the Second World War. He first saw action in distant China fighting against the Japanese. But where the humble biplane bec
Ekaterini Teontoroyou was a special young lady. Born in 1894 in a small village in Romania to peasant parents, she wrote her own, special, page in the history of the great massacre known as the First World War. Her real name was Catalina. He also had two sisters and five brothers. She was a memb
At the end of the 19th century, the Armenians, like all peoples enslaved by the Ottomans, suffered forever. The Turks were constantly demanding taxes and tributes while the disorderly Kurdish horsemen were terrorizing them. Thousands of Armenian farmers were forced to leave their land. After the
After his defeat in Russia in 1813, Napoleon returned to France and attempted to rebuild a new army. Numerically he succeeded. However, in terms of quality, this army lagged behind dramatically. In the meantime the political situation worsened, with Austria leaning towards the anti-French coalition,
The Battle of the Bzura River was the most important attempt by the Poles to reverse the situation against them as it was shaped by the German invasion in September 1939. The Polish defense plan was flawed from the start as it provided for the defense of the entire national territory by seven ar
The Melanochites, the militia of the Italian fascist party, participated in Mussolinis wars. They first fought in Ethiopia in 1935-36 and then in Spain, on Francos side, until 1939. They also fought in Africa and later in the Soviet Union. Fatal Blackcoat forces also participated in the Italian a
In the Russian land, for centuries, there were peoples who produced excellent light horsemen. The most famous were the Cossacks. They followed various Asian tribes, such as the Tatars or the Kalmuks. The Cossacks gradually joined the Russian, tsarist armies, from the 16th century and remained loyal
Medieval monasteries housed monks who practiced the cenobitic system, who lived a life of asceticism and seclusion. By Me. Cláudio FernandesBetween the call Antique Late and the High Age Average , that is, around the 5th and 6th centuries AD, Christianity sought to stand out and establish itself as
On 24 March 1940, the Muslim League in its Lahore session passed a resolution to create Pakistan, in which it was said that- It is the firm view of this session of All India Muslim League that no legislative plan can be successful in this country and cannot be accepted by Muslims unless it is prep
Bamburgh Castle (pronounced Bambrah, as we do not say Edinburgh, but Edimbrah) is located in the county of Northumberland, England, on the North Sea coast. It is erected on a long rocky ridge (extremely hard magmatic rock) parallel to the coast and which emerges from the dune cordon along the shore.
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