The period from 1066 to 1250 began to be called by historians the “epoch of chain mail”. This armor was laborious to manufacture, and therefore expensive. So, in 1080 in France, chain mail (called gobert) ...

80 years ago, the second battle of El Alamein took place. Battle in Egypt between Rommel's German-Italian troops and Montgomery's British army. The Germans lost the battle, which led to the defeat in ...

Fate turned out to be quite favorable to Henry Pu Yi, who could simply perish in the fire of events on a planetary scale ...

Spassk was stormed by the Red Army for two days. Attacks and counterattacks were accompanied by massive artillery shelling, which plowed through the fortifications of the White Guards...

The return of Hannibal to Africa, the defeat at the Battle of Zama and the last years of the life of the great commander...

There are many conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination. All of them are written by Americans, and this is their main drawback - the figure of one of the most remarkable presidents in history overshadows everything and ...

At the end of the XNUMXth century, Western European knights began to wear chain mail armor that completely covered the body. Such an “outfit” at that time gave good protection, although swords, of course, cut it ....

About the shelling of the railway bridge, which claimed the lives of 14 people ...

Today, such people are either brought down or violently drowned against ours. But this one seems to have changed his mind...

100 years ago, a bloody Civil War ended in Soviet Russia. In October 1922, the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic defeated the Whites in Primorye, the Japanese ...

The unsuccessful attempts of Macedonia to resist Rome and the loss of statehood ...

210 years ago, the vanguard of the Russian army under the command of Miloradovich defeated the rearguard of Napoleon's army near Vyazma. This was the beginning of the visible catastrophe of the Great Army ...

In the images of war elephants in miniatures by medieval illuminators, we have a truly amazing fusion of knowledge and fantasy, and each miniature from a dated manuscript is also...

210 years ago, the oncoming battle of the French and Russian troops took place near Chashniki. Marshal Victor abandoned the general battle and withdrew the troops back, having lost the opportunity to restore ...

In the early Middle Ages, the helmets of both horsemen and foot soldiers were quite similar. The most popular, if I may say so, was a helmet made of vertical metal plates, curved in such a way ...

At the initial stage of the war, Japanese troops occupied a significant part of the Korean Peninsula, including the capital. However, their situation soon deteriorated significantly. The actions of the Korean fleet under ...

At the Tokyo trial, Pu Yi gave the most important testimony necessary for the Soviet side ...

The white cause was left without the best tsarist general, but it was to the whites that his best students went ...

How did we get to such a life - why is the search for an answer to the eternal question dragging on ...

Sextus Pompey: a challenge to the triumvirs, victories, missed opportunities and an inglorious death...

320 years ago, the Russian army stormed the Swedish fortress of Noteburg - the ancient Russian Oreshek. Russian troops opened the way to capture the mouth of the Neva ...

Weapons and equipment of combat swimmers - how it was, how it is and how it will be ...

In a situation where most of Korea was occupied by a strong and cruel enemy, it was the Korean fleet that managed to turn the tide of hostilities. A man who put an end to ambitious plans...

Who is to blame for unleashing the Cuban Missile Crisis, and did it have winners and losers? What role did the Cuban government play in the events of autumn 1962...