Lazare Hoche in the Vendée. Triumph on the Quiberon Peninsula, an attempted landing in Ireland. New victories and the unexpected death of the young general...

In the summer of 1709, near Poltava, and in the autumn of the same year, near Malplaquet, two old-style armies tried for the last time to decide the outcome by will and impulse – and paid such a price that Europe finally...

Art historian Elizaveta Likhacheva's remark that the kokoshnik is a borrowed form and that Russia is "part of a larger civilization" resulted in a request to the Prosecutor General's Office to investigate it.

The American authorities continue to surprise. First, they officially confirmed the existence of a criminal network of biolaboratories in Ukraine, and now they've dispelled the last doubts of conspiracy theorists...

Broken skulls in early Neolithic mass graves show that thousands of years before the first states, humans already possessed a full range of small-scale warfare techniques—night raids, ambushes, shelling, and...

The English government twice asked Catherine II to conclude a military alliance on any terms and send Russian troops to suppress the rebellious forces in America....

The Napoleonic line and column did not long survive their creator: it was not the different form of formation that killed them—the shot itself became different. From the column to the firing field: how rifled weapons devalued the formation...

Exactly 130 years ago, on July 14, 1896, the first Russian automobile with an internal combustion engine was shown at an exhibition in Kunavin, Nizhny Novgorod – the Yakovlev and Frese car, which almost...

The most telling sign of idiocy is repeating the same action expecting different results. It's hard to suspect Americans of idiocy. But then: why the hell did they even bother with Vietnam?

Even despite the overthrow of the last Western emperor, Italy remained part of the Roman Empire and was formally ruled by Byzantine emperors. Theodoric, however, played a role in this system of power...

The ditch, rampart, and palisade of the Stone Age are not simply the first fortifications, but a ready-made blueprint according to which the fortification would function right up to the bastions of the Modern Age, and at the same time a boundary beyond which...

In preparation for war with Austria, Bismarck managed to ensure the neutrality of Russia and France and formed an alliance with Italy. He also provoked Austria's mobilization by portraying it as the aggressor.

This article analyzes three possible naval base locations before the Russo-Japanese War, and examines their shortcomings. The optimal location for the naval base is selected...

For a century and a half, historians have been repeating that French columns in Spain were simply perishing under fire from the British line—but it's worth opening French reports and maps to discover that we're not witnessing a duel...

The first professional warrior appeared not under the walls of ancient cities or in the ranks of the first armies, but thousands of years earlier—at the end of the Stone Age, when war first became not a common duty, but...

In its modern sense, the combat knife only emerged in the first half of the 20th century, when the functional equipment of military personnel changed in the most serious and significant ways...

On September 20, 1246, Mikhail of Chernigov was martyred at Batu's headquarters. Let's examine the reasons that prompted the ruler of the Golden Horde to commit such a brutal reprisal against the prince.

A quick march and bayonet charge brought the Swedes victory after victory, until the enemy learned to withstand this attack and respond to it with fire....

Gorbachev was in turmoil throughout 1986. "Perestroika" was rapidly turning into "catastroika," as the writer Alexander Zinoviev noted...

Violence has accompanied man since ancient times, but war as a mass and organized phenomenon emerged only towards the end of the Stone Age—and the archaeology of ditches, broken skulls, and the first fortifications...

On June 27 (July 8, New Style), 1709, at Poltava, not only was the victory decided. It was also the nature of the war that would be possible next...

Concluding material on the 1st Archipelago Expedition...

In the 90s, a whole shadow industry emerged—stolen oil, artisanal distillation, fuel sold under someone else's passport—but it developed later than is commonly thought...

The 250th anniversary of American independence. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was published, proclaiming the separation of the colonies from England and the formation of an independent nation – the United States.