The battle of Salamis is a naval battle which opposed in 480 BC. AD the Greek fleet led by Eurybiades and Themistocles to the Persian fleet of Xerxes I. The situation on the eve of the battle and Themistocles strategy The Greek fleet is at anchor at Artemision when the Battle of Thermopylae begins.
The Battle of Marathon is one of the episodes of the Persian Wars. All year 491 BC. AD is devoted to military and diplomatic preparations for this offensive. Many Greek cities receive ambassadors asking for their submission. Some comply, but both Athens and Sparta refuse and put to death (according
Battle of Pharsalus. The preliminaries Pompey, who had his camp on a height, confined himself to arranging his troops in battle array at the foot of the hill, doubtless waiting for Caesar to engage in some disadvantageous post. Caesar, thinking he could never lure Pompey into battle, thought it bes
The phalanx (in Ancient Greek φάλαγξ / phálanx) is an infantry combat formation used since the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. BC in Mesopotamia by the Sumerians. Its best-known form is that which spread throughout ancient Greece from the post-Geometric period (7th century BC) to the Hellenistic pe
The peltasts (in ancient Greek peltastaí, from péltê, light shield) are, from the 4th century BC, the mercenary infantry characteristic of Greek and then Hellenistic armies. The peltasts are initially recruited in the Greek cities of the coast of Thrace and then they come later from more varied hor
hoplite (in ancient Greek /hoplítês, /hóplon weapon; the French h is not aspirated) is a heavily armed soldier, as opposed to (gumnếs, Frenchized as gymnète) and ψιλός (psilós), armed slightly. A hoplite carries: * a helmet (κράνος / krános) * a breastplate (θώραξ / thốrax) * cnemids (κνημῖδες / k
The Jugurtha War is the name of a conflict between the Roman Republic and the Numidian king Jugurtha between 112 and 105 BC. This conflict is named after a work by the historian Sallust. Jugurtha is the nephew then the adopted son of Micipsa, perhaps under Roman pressure. When he died in 118 BC. J.
Within a few days, they had to learn it together. Despite the Persian gold, Spartas affairs go badly and for Darius there is no hope of returning to the Mediterranean for a long time. Alexandre now has a free hand to enter Asia. At the beginning of spring 331, three years after his entry into Asia,
The Sacred Battalion (in ancient Greek hieros lokhos) was an elite corps of the Theban army in ancient Greece. The Sacred Battalion of Thebes is an elite corps of 300 men, created according to Plutarch by the Theban commander Gorgidas: “The Sacred Battalion was, it is said, created by Gorgidas. He
Battle of the Catalaunian Fields General Information Date September 20 to 22, 451 Location Surroundings of Troyes, Champs Mauriaques Undecided Outcome Belligerents Roman Empire, Visigoths, Franks, Alans, Burgundians, Armoricans and Bagaudes Huns, Ostrogoths, Gepids, Heruli, Skires, Ruges, Pann
The Battle of Magnesia took place in the winter of 190-189 BC. It probably took place at the beginning of the year 189 BC. It opposed the Romans, led by the consul Scipio the Asiatic, and a Macedonian-type army of the Seleucid dynasty, led by King Antiochos III. It was the decisive battle of the Ant
The religion of the Phoenicians was polytheistic and anthropomorphic. The Phoenicians kept the ancient traditional gods of the Semitic peoples:the terrestrial and celestial deities, common to all the peoples of ancient Asia. It should be noted, as a strange fact, that they did not give greater impor
Voyages and settlements that Phoenician traders carried out during the first millennium BC. It seems that Phoenician navigators were the first to use the North Star to guide their travels, which allowed them to venture outside the Mediterranean Sea. From the city-states of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos, th
Phenicia was formed by a set of autonomous city-states. Each city had an independent government, exercised by members of the aristocratic class, composed of wealthy merchants, shipowners and artisans. Generally speaking, the head of government was a king, whose function was transmitted by heredity.
The main economic activity of the Phoenicians was trade. Due to commercial business, the Phoenicians developed maritime navigation techniques, becoming the greatest navigators of antiquity. In this way, they traded with a large number of peoples and in various parts of the Mediterranean, keeping the
The Phoenician Civilization developed mostly in the region of present-day Lebanon and became known for mastering navigation techniques and having an influential trade. The Phoenicians they were a people who formed a civilization in the region of Palestine, precisely in the regions where today Leban
Due to the various commercial contacts they had with different peoples, the Phoenicians felt the need for a practical means to facilitate communication. Pressured by this need, the Phoenicians developed one of the most fabulous inventions in human history:the alphabet. The Phoenician alphabet cons
The city of Carthage, founded approximately 800 BC, was one of the greatest cities of antiquity. His army, which faced the troops of Rome, had important generals such as Hamilcar Barca and Hannibal. Carthaginian Civilization
Punic Wars were armed conflicts between Rome and Carthage, between 264 and 146 BC, being won by the Romans, who consolidated their power in the Mediterranean Sea. The Punic Wars were armed conflicts between Rome and Carthage , between 264 and 146 BC. Carthage, located in North Africa, had the contr
Carthage was a great city in antiquity, on the northern coast of Africa, close to present-day Tunisia. Dido was the legendary founding queen of Carthage, created by the Phoenicians, probably in the late 9th century BC, as a trading post. The oldest objects found by archaeologists date back to 800 BC
Portrait of Ashoka Ashoka is the third emperor of the Mauryan dynasty, which, between the IVth and the IIth century BC. BC, dominated almost all of India, Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. With skill, and thanks to their military power, the Mauryas gradually spread from Pataliputra, the capital
Torrio then proceeded to take over several breweries and, posing as atype regular, he persuaded their managers to resume their activities. With comfortable bribes, he succeeded in corrupting the police and the political circles of the city, which allowed him to strengthen the hold of the gangsters o
Sister ships of a three-ship class:Deutschland (plus later, Lutzow), the Graf Spee and the Scheer, After the First World War, Germany no longer possessed any of the excellent dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet, but only a few old pre-dreadnoughts that could practically only be used for training. I
The summer of 1566 saw the last attempt of the Turkish sultan Suleiman the so-called magnificent, to neutralize the Habsburgs, also occupying Vienna. On May 1, 1566 Suleiman, at the head of a huge army that according to some sources numbered 300,000 men. Other sources state 100-200,000 men. On Ju