The Battle of Stalingrad , which opposed the German and Soviet armies from August 1942 to January 1943, is considered a turning point of the Second World War . Having become a symbol, this battle is one of the most significant episodes in the military history of the 20th century. This titanic combat
Started on June 22, 1941, Operation Barbarossa was a plan of attack drawn up by Hitler as early as December 1940 with the aim of invading the Soviet Union. The failure of the Luftwaffe against England the previous year had forced the Nazi dictator to abandon his plan to invade the island in October
The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval air engagement of World War II, which gave the United States maritime supremacy over Japan in the Pacific Ocean. This battle took place from June 3 to 7, 1942 near the Midway Islands, northwest of the Hawaiian Islands. Foiling the Japanese strategy of establ
The Battle of Kursk , which took place in western Russia from July 5 to 13, 1943, is a turning point in World War II. Involving more than 2 million men and more than 3,000 Russian and German armor, it is considered the greatest tank battle in history . The last major offensive attempted by the Nazis
The Battle of Jutland was the greatest naval battle of the First World War, fought between the British and German fleets on May 31 and June 1, 1916. As the war on land got bogged down in the trenches and then the hell of Verdun , the clash has not yet taken place at sea between the two European riva
The Long Battle of the Somme was fought from July to November 1916 by the Allies against German forces in the Somme region of northern France. This very deadly episode was a turning point in the engagement of the British in the First World War, which engaged for the first time some 40 tanks on Septe
The First Battle of the Marne, delivered between September 5 and 12, 1914, stopped the German advance in northeastern France and opened the era of “trench warfare”. From the beginning of the First World War, the German army violated Belgian neutrality in application of the Schlieffen plan which cons
The Battle of Verdun , which opposed German troops to French troops, took place between February 21 and December 18, 1916. It began with a German offensive which aimed to bleed white the French army. The defense of this part of the front was quickly entrusted to General Pétain, who organized the sup
The Battle of Gettysburg , which took place from July 1 to 3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is considered the turning point of the Civil War (1861-1865). The northerners won on the battlefield a costly but decisive victory over the southerners, who emerged durably weakened and were never able to
Page 1 of 7 January 22, 1879, almighty Victorian England wiped out, at the foot of a mountain in South Africa , one of the most complete and humiliating military defeats of its history during the Battle of Isandlwana . The British counterpart of what the Battle of the Little Bighorn was to the Unite
In popular culture, the battle of Frœschwiller-Woerth is known as the battle of Reichshoffen from the name of the famous cuirassiers known as Reichshoffen who heroically sacrificed themselves on August 6, 1870 during useless charges against a much more numerous and powerfully armed enemy, during the
The Battle of Camerone (Mexico, 1863) is a founding episode in the Foreign Legion, which celebrates this fort Alamo French version every year. In 1862, France came to the aid of Emperor Maximilian, whom it imposed on the throne of Mexico. On April 30, 1863, a detachment of about sixty legionnaires d
The Battle of Eylau (February 8, 1807) is a hard-won victory for Napoleon I over the Russians in the former East Prussia. It is a real carnage where Napoleon I discovers for the first time the immensity of Russia and the harshness of its winters. He will need victory at the Battle of Friedland, June
The Battle of Wagram , in Austria, is the last great victory of Napoleon I, won over the Austrian armies on July 6, 1809 northeast of Vienna. This battle marked the end of the Austrian campaign and allowed Napoleon to reduce the fifth European coalition against France since 1792. The Grande Armée, w
The Battle of Waterloo opposed on June 18, 1815 the armies of Napoleon to the Anglo-Prussian troops of Wellington and Blücher, not far from Brussels. After escaping from the island of Elba where he was being held prisoner, Napoleon returned to Paris on March 20, 1815 and regained power (“Cent-Jours”
The Battle of Austerlitz took place on December 2, 1805 and pitted the troops of Emperor Napoleon I against the armies of the Russian (Alexander I) and Austrian (Francis II) emperors. Also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, this crushing French victory on the anniversary of the Emperors coro
October 21, 1805 during the naval battle of Trafalgar , the British fleet led by Admiral Nelson defeats the Franco-Spanish coalition commanded by Admiral Villeneuve. This decisive confrontation took place off the cape of Trafalgar , in the south of Spain near Cadiz, opposing eighteen French and fift
Won by Bonaparte over the Mamluks of Egypt on July 21, 1798, the Battle of the Pyramids is the most prestigious (and rare) French victory of the Egyptian campaign. She will leave to posterity one of the most famous quotes of the future emperor:“From the top of these pyramids forty centuries of hist
Invested in command during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), Philippe dOrléans takes the head of the army of Italy (1706), but, surrounded by incompetent advisers, is embroiled in the disaster of the siege of Turin. The War of the Spanish Succession was one of the longest conflicts of L
Among the great victories between the House of Bourbons and that of Habsburg and in the confrontation between the French and the English, the Battle of Fontenoy is the most famous, which became popular thanks to this phrase “English gentlemen, shoot first!” . On May 6, 1745, King Louis XV left Versa
Millions of Poles have fled to the West over the decades of the Peoples Republic of Poland. Daredevils crossed the border despite the constant vigilance of the authorities. And they proved that human ingenuity knows no bounds. What were their methods tried? A few years after World War II, the co
Located in the Patterson Heights area of Calgary is an old, large mansion. Surrounded by other luxury homes, the brick house offers stunning views of the city skyline. This house was built in 1902, making it one of Calgarys oldest landmarks. The house has a historical history:it served as a milita
The Barberini al Pincio obelisk, closely linked to the tomb of Antinous The place where the tomb of Antinous would be found, lover of the Emperor Hadrian tragically died in his twenties, is controversial. According to some sources, the young mans inhumation occurred in Egypt, where he died
Gangsters use it to buy weapons, drugs, works of art, and even human organs. But it wasnt like that before. Before WWII, the black market ... did not exist at all. Today we are talking about the black market without much thought, but the name was by no means obvious to the inhabitants of occupie