TheMadsen is not a simple weapon but now a legend that has served for over 100 years. It is the worlds first real light machine gun/machine gun created in 1902 by the Danes Willem Hermann Oluf Madsen, Julius Rasmussen and Theodor Suboe. His enlistment was approved by the Danish Minister of War, Colo
In April 1809 the French and Austrian empires were once again at war. Austria had lost Dalmatia in 1805 which Napoleon gave to the Kingdom of Italy. The Dalmatian Army under General Auguste Marmont was stationed in Dalmatia. Marmons army had two divisions of infantry and heavily reinforced artill
On August 1, 1944, the uprising broke out in Warsaw against the German occupiers. Initially the uprising, organized by the largest Polish resistance organization AK, prevailed in most of the west of the Vistula part of the city. On 3 August Himmler assigned SS General von dem Bach Chelewski to su
The Bastille was a powerful fortress with eight towers built in the 14th century to protect Paris from English attacks during the Hundred Years War. It gradually turned into a prison where the infamous Marquis de Sade was also held. On July 14, 1789, the citizens of Paris rose up and occupied the
City of the Neolithic period discovered near Jerusalem. It is a normal city with streets, houses, cemetery, workshops. The city was discovered during road construction works. It is one of the largest settlements of the era that have been discovered. It is the first time that a city of this size h
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
The Battle of Hamburg fought between 18 April and 3 May 1945 was one of the last of World War II, when the outcome was already decided. Nevertheless, it was given stubbornly by both sides. After crossing the Rhine the Allies began to advance rapidly into German territory with the overstretched Ge
The last battle of World War II in Europe began before the official end of the war but continued for several days afterwards. It was a particularly fierce battle with a strong flavor of righteous revenge. However, it is also an almost unknown battle, and this is because the regime that prevailed aft
The battle of Satsk was one of the last battles fought by the brave Poles against the invaders in their homeland in 1939. However, the opponents in this case were not the Germans but the Soviets. Pre-war Poland had a strong military border guard (BGB). However, after the German invasion, the best un
Gelnia is a small town 82 km southeast of Smolensk. Its neighboring heights were considered of strategic importance and for this reason the German invaders of the USSR struggled to capture them. On July 19, 1941 the forces of the 2nd Panster Group (equivalent army formation) of General Heinz Guderia
The Romanian army acquired its first tanks in 1917-18. These were 76 Renault FTs, the 48 with a 37 mm gun. and the rest with an 8mm machine gun. In 1936 it was decided to form the first Romanian armored division. For this purpose, 36 Czechoslovak Skoda AH-IVR tankettes, armed only with machine g
The French submarine La Minerve, which disappeared in 1968 with a crew of 52, has been found after 50 years off Toulon, Defense Minister Florence Parly announced today. “We found La Minerve. It is a success, a relief and a technical achievement. My thoughts are with the families who have been waitin
The Falklands War broke out on 2 April 1982 when Argentina occupied the islands of the same name as well as the island of South Georgia. The British reacted and a few days later their ships approached the islands. Pebble Island is one of several in the Falkland Islands. It is located north of th
Under the pressure of impending collapse, the Ustasi regime in Croatia was beginning to prepare forces that would continue the war after the inevitable victory of Tito and his partisans. After the end of the war, many Croats fled to Austria and Italy from where they continued their preparations.
The battle of Komarov is one of the most important and least known of the 20th century. If the outcome had been different the history of Europe would also have been completely different. This was avoided thanks to the incompetence of the commander of an army that outnumbered its opponent 10:1 in str
The battle of Ekeren is one of the most unknown, but also the most interesting of, in fact, the second world war of humanity, the War of the Spanish Succession. It was a battle that logic said would be won by the many by annihilating the few. But it didnt happen like that. The War of the Spanish
An affidavit given by a former member of the Assault Battalion, more than 60 years old, bolsters the position that Adolf Hitlers National Socialist Party was responsible for the 1933 Reichstag fire, according to German media. This document, revealed by media group RND, dates from 1955 and comes from
There are times when some people do not care about their lives, putting honor first, even if their doom is certain. One such case was that of the 21 brave men of Saragari who found themselves, each one, fighting with 500 opponents. Saragari was a small village in British India. Today it belongs t
Joaquin Garcia Morato was born in 1904. He was the son of an infantry officer. He entered the military academy at the age of 16 and with the rank of second lieutenant fought in Spanish Morocco against the rebel locals. In 1925, however, he decided to become a pilot. Participated in operations flying
North Korea attacked the South on June 25, 1950 starting the conflict that became known as the Korean War. The North Koreans, reinforced with Soviet T-34/85 tanks, swept through the resistance of the South, who only had a few M8 armored vehicles, and occupied Seoul three days later. The US mobili
Athens had lost the Peloponnesian War against Sparta, surrendering in 404 BC. For a brief period of time the city was ruled by the Thirty Tyrants imposed by the Spartans, although only a year later, in 403 BC. Thrasíbulo managed to expel them and restore democracy. Difficult years followed when Ath
Lvov, todays Lviv in Ukraine, belonged to Poland in 1939. On September 1, Poland was attacked by Germany. The city was located close to the border with the then USSR and consequently had not been fortified by the Poles who did not foresee such a deep retreating maneuver. However, developments wer
The Rise of Nonviolent and Vegetarian Philosophical Thinking There is an old country in Europe called Greece, which we also know as Greece. In this Greece, about 580 years before Christ, a philosopher named Pythagoras was born, which todays world knows as a mathematician. Pythagoras died about 500
The B-47 Stratojet was the first valuable jet bomber to to enter USAF service and the absolute first in its class to feature swept-back wings. The approximately 1,800 examples from the many versions produced between 1946 and 1957 remained in service with the Strategic Air Command throughout the 1950