80 years ago, the 2nd Ukrainian Front under the command of I. S. Konev carried out the Uman-Botoshan operation. Soviet troops defeated the 8th German Army, liberated the southwestern regions of the Right Bank...
On September 17, 1646, French troops under the command of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, besieged Dunkirk, hated by the French and English, and the fortress was blocked from the sea by the Dutch fleet...
Having received command of the Punic army and reorganized it, Xanthippus launched an attack on the Roman army located near Carthage under the command of Marcus Atilius Regulus and defeated it in...
“If less than half of the Russians remain in the division, it must be disbanded.” These words are attributed to the prominent Soviet commander of Armenian origin Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan...
The hero of our next material will be the English king, who belonged to the York Plantageneg line, Edward, Earl of March, better known as King Edward IV....
It is generally accepted that it was the incident with the pig that almost led to war between the United States and Great Britain over the island of San Juan. Why did such a ridiculous reason bring countries to the brink of war...
Irish navigator Tim (Timothy) Severin explored myths about sea voyages and tested in practice whether these “mythical” events were possible in reality...
210 years ago, allied Russian-Bavarian troops defeated Oudinot's French corps near the town of Bar-sur-Aube. The main army stopped retreating and resumed its offensive...
“Don’t spare the soldiers! Women are still giving birth!” This expression was attributed to Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov in the 1990s. But Zhukov didn’t say anything like that...
Since 1991, the owners of Kyiv should not have carried out decommunization, but, on the contrary, erected monuments to the creators of today's Ukraine - Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev...
On February 23, 1938, SB piloted by Soviet pilots launched a powerful airstrike on a Japanese military base located in Taiwan, and today’s conversation is about the prelude to the appearance of Soviet pilots in...
The return of Infanta Isabella to court, marriage against the will of the king, accession to the throne, war with Portugal, family life and the fate of children...
What role did Umberto Nobile and Felice Troiani play in the development of Soviet airship construction? Why did Nobile agree to head Dirigiblestroy and how did he feel about the USSR? Like the conflict between Nobile and...