In 1792 the leadership of revolutionary France decided to export the revolution to Europe. The French declared war on almost all of Europe and eventually invaded Germany as well. In June 1796 a French army of 24,000 men under General Jean-Baptiste Clebert moved into the Westerwald (the Western Fores
After the Fall of the City in 1453, Mohammed II continued his expansionist policy. In 1460 the Turkish sultan sent an embassy to the Vlach ruler Vlad Dracul, demanding the payment of a servitude tax owed since 1459. In response, Vlad killed the Turkish envoys. The sultan demanded 10,000 coins and 1,
In 1975, Nigeria purchased 25 MiG-MF and 6 MiG-21 UM fighter jets from the Soviet Union, planes that even today are the most popular 3rd generation supersonic fighters in history. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the aircraft have since remained in military hangars. They have between 45 and 54
Destiny plays strange games many times and leads a worthy man from utter obscurity to acclaim. Johann von Sporck was such a man. He was born in 1600 on a small farm in Paderborn, Germany. He seems to have received a good education assisted by his three brothers, one of whom worked for the local bish
Turkeys relations with Hitlers Germany were good during World War II. Hitler wanted a neutral Turkey from which to secure valuable chromite. Turkey, without spoiling its relations with Britain or the USA, served Germany until 1944. In October 1941 Germany and Turkey signed an important trade agreeme
In 1700 a new war broke out in long-suffering Europe, that of the Spanish Succession. France and the Habsburg Empire (Empire from here) were again rivals on three fronts (the Low Countries, the Rhine, northern Italy). On the Italian front, the Italian state of Piedmont had sided with the French. On
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
The painting of a wild pig, discovered on the wall of an inaccessible cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and dating back at least 45,500 years, perhaps thousands of years earlier, is the oldest cave painting of an animal in the world and, in general, the oldest representational cave painting
Operation Heads was a real Polish resistance headhunt against German criminals of the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) of the SS and other services in occupied Poland in 1943-44. The operation was the Polish response to German atrocities. Every day in Poland, during this period at least 400 Poles per
After his victory over Austria in 1805, Napoleon dissolved the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and founded the Confederation of the Rhine to which, gradually, all the smaller German states and states joined. Among these were the principalities of Waldeck, Reus, Lippe Bickenburg, Lippe Detmol,
One of the historical myths that have been established for... romantic, ideological reasons concerns the military exploits of the French democrats during the French Revolution against the darkness of the old regime in other European countries. The legend wants the French Avracotes, reinforced with r
Napoleonic squares have become famous since the Battle of Waterloo, when British and Allied infantry handily repulsed massed French cavalry charges. However, the square formation, as most people have it in mind, was much older and was used in the 17th and 18th centuries. Of course we are not talking
In November 1807 French and Spanish forces invaded Portugal and easily occupied it. The declining Portuguese army was disbanded without a fight and the country surrendered to the French general Zunot. Immediately after the conquest of the country, Napoleon ordered the formation of a Portuguese Legio
About 42,000 years ago the magnetic poles of our planet reversed (north became south and vice versa), which - combined with a simultaneous decline in the activity of the Sun - had the consequence of causing serious environmental and climatic changes , catastrophic events for various species of large
Some peoples have a special martial tradition of defying death. One of them is the Polish people who - lives parallel to the Greek - were for centuries slaves to three masters (Germans, Austrians and mainly Russians). When World War I broke out most of Poland was part of the tsarist empire. More
Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin is a peculiar case of anthropomorphic mammal. Although bipedal and bearing a human form, he was much worse than the lions of Nero that I killed with hunger. Born in 1895 or according to other sources in 1887 in the small town of Szysztál, it is unknown how he grew up and
The German unprovoked invasion of Poland began at dawn on September 1, 1939. German forces were overwhelmingly superior on land, air and sea. However, the Poles fought bravely even though their struggle was doomed from the start. In fact, they also undertook some counterattacks that had excellent, a
The first organisms that breathed oxygen appeared about 3.1 billion years ago, according to new scientific estimates. The new Israeli genetic analysis of several different families of microorganisms came to the rather unexpected conclusion that the use of oxygen by living microorganisms began nearly
The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most widespread and at the same time one of the most horrific military legends in history, and has been filed by many simply as an infamous conspiracy theory during World War II. However, how much truth is hidden in the Philadelphia Experiment and to what ex
Although today many tend to argue the opposite, Italy in 1940 was a great European power. It wasnt Germany, it wasnt Britain, but it was a great power especially compared to little Greece. The dictator Mussolini had tried to strengthen the Italian army, without much success. The Italian army was far
The attack on Pearl Harbor started the conflict between the United States and Japan during World War II and was a reflection of the feeling of superiority that existed in Japan. The attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor , held on December 7, 1941, marked the beginning of the conflict between
Raymond Poincaré, born August 20, 1860 in Bar-le-Duc (Meuse) and died October 15, 1934 in Paris, was a French statesman, cousin of the mathematician Henri Poincaré. Trained in politics by Jules Develle, where he was director of cabinet at the Ministry of Agriculture in 1886, then elected general co
(Arcis-sur-Aube, 1759 - Paris, 1794.) Politician, one of the most outstanding and controversial figures of the French Revolution, great patriot for some, venal politician for others. Son of a prosecutor in the bailiwick of Arcis, he completed his law studies in Paris, and joined the bar of the capi
Walker, go and tell Sparta that her children lie here to fulfill her laws . That splendid phrase of Simonides that, in its multiple translations, constitutes the epigraph of the monument to Leonidas at Thermopylae, is too juicy not to take advantage of it in other war memorials with the correspondi