After the death of the King of England, Edward the Confessor , and breaking the agreement that he had signed with the Duke of Normandy, William , Harold was made king . In 1066, claiming a legitimate claim to the island, William invaded England. On October 14 the Saxon and Norman forces met at Has
From the end of October 1912 the rivalries between the Balkan powers had again begun to surface. The occupation of Thessaloniki by the Greek Army had given the gratifying shot at the unity of the alliance. For the time being, of course, the presence of the common enemy forced the Balkan allies to ma
At the start of the German operations against Greece on the Greece-Bulgaria border, a gigantic, in terms of resources and difficulty of implementation, defense project had been largely completed. Its purpose was to protect the country from sudden hostile action on the part of Bulgaria. The end resul
Alexios Philanthropinos came from a military family. In 1294 he was appointed by Andronikos, commander of the border forces on the Maeander River. General Livadarios was appointed commander of the other Asia Minor forces. Philanthropinos recruited many Cretan refugees into the army – after a rev