The so-called lace wars of the late 17th to the middle of the 18th century are considered today as a kind of good war, without deviations, without murders, without massacres of civilians, looting, rape, war crimes. But was it so? History shows that, unfortunately, this was not the only way it ha
Popular uprisings were generally considered a rare phenomenon in 17th century Europe. And yet they were more common than is generally believed. The uprising of the Bavarian peasants against the Austrian conquerors in 1705, however, could be characterized as a national revolution. In 1704 the Bri
The Puckle gun could be the first functional machine gun in history. Designed in 1717 by British inventor, jurist and author James Packle. Pakls machine gun, as it was officially called, was a weapon between a revolver and a light gun. It had a single barrel, but also a rotating breech with 6-11
The American cavalry has been associated for most with Hollywood movies where horsemen charged with revolvers, carbines and swords against the Indians. But there was also a case when the Americans rushed out a la Hollywood in reality and in fact during the Second World War. Cavalry, when World Wa
The Hehe or Wahehe in Swahili are a people of 800,000 souls today who fought heroically against the German colonialists in the late 19th century. and they even managed to achieve the most humiliating defeat of the arrogant Germans. The Hehe live in what is now southern Tanzania in eastern Africa
The German infantry platoon consisted of four battle groups, a command group and a light mortar group. The squad consisted of the chief platoon leader, who usually held the rank of sergeant or corporal, and nine men, one of whom was the platoon leaders assistant. The squad leader was armed with
The leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, had many genital abnormalities and strange tastes, according to historian Emma Craigie. In particular, the author of the book Hitlers Last Day:Minute by Minute revealed in a radio discussion that according to documents from his days in the army as well as te
1805 was a year of triumph for French arms. And yet the French triumph could have been nullified by the opening of a new front, in southern Italy, as Old Albion, Britain, as another Athens, could with her wooden walls strike the French Empire in the soft, Mediterranean of, hypogastric. So while e
The brain of a 25-year-old man who died in the city of Herculaneum, Italy, near Pompeii, during the terrible eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, was turned into glass. Italian researchers have found for the first time fragments of a glassy black material inside the victims cranial cavity and speculate th
By the early 1960s the Israeli navy was clearly falling behind dramatically. This is why it was decided to build new ships and especially missiles. For this purpose, the German Lurssen shipyards were chosen, but with the intervention of the Arab League, the Germans backed down. So the maneuver wa
The Battle of Mergenheim on May 2, 1645 was not of decisive importance, it was nothing more than a tactical clash between two small armies, a French one under the famous (later) Field Marshal Turenne and an imperial-Bavarian one under Franz of Lorraine von Mercy. In Mergenheim, however, it proved th
The identity of the spy of the Soviet Union, who managed to infiltrate the US nuclear bomb program in the 1940s and is perhaps the man who gave the most and most important information to Moscow about the atomic bomb, they reveal declassified US documents. Oskar Szeborer, child of Polish immigrant
In 1982 Israel had invaded the territory of Lebanon. There his forces were also confronted by corresponding Syrian forces. So Israel decided to neutralize the threat of Syrian anti-aircraft missile arrays. The Soviets had given Syria many batteries. After one of their helicopters was shot down by Is
The Battle of Verdun was one of the deadliest in human history. It began on February 21 and ended on December 18, 1916. During all these months the French and Germans fought fiercely with attacks followed by counter-attacks and the dead piling up in the dead zone. The battle started with a Germa
Eugene of Savoy was born in France. His father served in the French army and he sought to follow in his footsteps. However, Louis XIV of France did not accept him and he was forced to turn to the Austrians. His choice was reinforced by two events. Firstly his elder brother was already serving as an
In 355 AD the situation in the western part of the Roman Empire was just not good. The Germans (Alemanni and Franks), had breached the border of the Rhine and invaded as far as Gaul. The emperor Constantius then ordered his cousin – one of the few relatives he had left alive – Julian, the later empe
It sounds strange but the Germans played a catalytic role in the American Revolutionary War. The most paradoxical part of the case was that soldiers from tiny German states took part in the war on the side of the British, who rented entire battalions and regiments from the various German rulers.
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 officially began on 3 December with the independence of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) being awarded. India had every interest in intensifying disruptive moves to weaken its main adversary. However, the conflicts started much earlier than the official outbreak of
On the afternoon of June 27, 1944, with the German front in Belarus having collapsed from the great Soviet offensive, the first trains with units of the 12th Panzer Division began to arrive in the rear zone of the former 9th Army. The 12th Panzer would attempt to contain the Soviet advance north of
The little or First Northern War (1655-60) was one of the most important though lesser-known conflicts that made little Sweden a pan-European power. The Swedish king Charles Gustav, facing Poland (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), Russia, Prussia, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands, had managed, in
The Battle of Foksani is one of the most important of the Austrian and Russian war against the Turks. The war began as a Russo-Turkish war in 1787, but the following year the Habsburg Empire joined Russia on the side. In the mid-summer of 1789 a small Austrian army under the worthy general Princ
On September 1, 1939, Hitlers armies invaded Poland, triggering the outbreak of the great carnage of World War II. Based on the plans of the Polish High Command, the Army of Poznań, the Army of Loch and the Army of Kraków were deployed on the western border of Poland. Lotzs Army had as its main role
The developments in the martial art are always interconnected with the corresponding developments in society and the economy. From the closed, social and economic societies of the Middle Ages, the archetype of the noble, mounted warrior knight could only emerge. However, as society evolved, so did t
Joan of Arc she was a French peasant woman who was etched in her countrys history for leading troops against the English during the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). The Frenchwoman claimed to have visions and hear voices that told her to join the fight against the English. After winning important vict