If the battle group is the cell of an army, the platoon is its main fabric. The platoon was then and remains the smallest combined action capable sub-unit. The platoon of the time extended three battle groups of 13 men – 39 men. It was commanded by a second lieutenant or adjutant and also had a plat
Ares was the god of war for the ancient Greeks, related to killing in conflicts. He was not the most popular god among the Greeks in antiquity. Ares was a deity that was part of the pantheon of the ancient Greeks considered the god of war and understood as the personification of violence and slaugh
We are all familiar with the expression «you are older than Methuselah » to express that a person is very old or, rather, has many years. The comparison with Methuselah is due to the fact that he is the oldest person mentioned in the Old Testament (he died at the age of 969 years) and for you to hav
50,000 fervent souls, which could house the Colosseum in Rome, did not tire of panting and cheering the naumachias or naval combats that used to be staged with some frequency on the arena of one of the greatest icons of the ancient empire -it was precisely a naumachia with the one in which Emperor T