The life story of the famous inventor Rudolf Diesel...

The Middle Ages is the world of stone castles, of which more than 15 were built in Europe. But after all, someone built them, and someone fed those who built them?...

Eustathius of Thessalonica wrote: “With the death of Manuel Comnenus, everything perished ... the earth was enveloped in darkness, as if during an eclipse of the Sun” ...

Cornelis began by confiscating all the weapons and provisions that the survivors had and brought them under his control. He then sent a group of soldiers led by Wibbe Hayes to a nearby...

What is the traditional "Czech street" of democracy and liberalism...

June 4, 1629 "Batavia" crashed near a small island off the west coast of Australia. There were 341 people on board, including crew members and passengers, of which ...

Unfortunately, after 1917, Russia was again made a cash cow of the West - already under Gorbachev and Yeltsin ...

John II was compared with Marcus Aurelius and called "the crown of all the kings who sat on the Roman throne from the Komnenos family" ...

The Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan considered that he owed nothing to the new emperor, unlike Roman Diogenes, and ordered the emirs and beys to launch attacks on Byzantium. And two years later...

What lessons did the Swedes learn from the defeats and how did they come to their current prosperity...

On April 7, 1453, the Ottomans breached the wall of Constantinople. On the same day, the Turks attacked. Poorly armed volunteers and irregular detachments were thrown into the assault ...

The economic component is the cornerstone of any armed conflict. This is an axiom. The Battle of the Neva, which took place on July 15, 1240, is no exception.

The case of the German Demmin with hundreds of corpses in early May 1945, who allegedly became victims of the "bloodthirsty Russians", perfectly illustrates the full power of Goebbels' propaganda...

Alexy Komnenos, a successful commander and emperor who stopped the onslaught of the Seljuks, Pechenegs and Sicilian Normans...

This article continues the series of articles on the sieges of the capital of Byzantium, Constantinople. It will talk about the battle of Manzikert in 1071 and its consequences...

Young Charles XII highly valued the experience and knowledge of Rehnschild, therefore, already at the beginning of hostilities in 1700, he appointed him as his military adviser. Together with Karl Rehnschild participates in the landing under ...

Roman Diogenes, having become emperor, began to gather an army for a campaign on the eastern border. Due to the savings of his predecessor on the army and the unwillingness of the stratiot peasants to serve in the army, the expeditionary ...

In the Middle Ages, for people of knighthood, a horse saddle was much more attractive than a swinging ship deck. Everything changed after 1492 and the return of Christopher Columbus from America. Already...

Under Emperor Maximilian I, tournaments involving foot soldiers became very popular. Such a tournament required special armor. Moreover, these armors were very expensive, and one should not think that ...

300 years ago, Russia came to the coast of the Baltic Sea, grandiose construction work began, the development of vast new territories. Russia is entering another stage in its history, becoming...

It was here, under the walls of a small border fortress, that the military problems began, which led to the death of the Roman Empire and its capital ....

For many years, the Far Eastern security officers left the Japanese exclusively with disinformation ...

In Westphalia, Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte was called the "jolly king", in Russia - "King Yerema"...

Today we will look at a very unusual publication - "The Book of Riding and Tournaments", in which ... attention is paid to everything ....