The battle of Peta, on July 4, 1822, was one of the most disastrous for the Greek arms during the Revolution of 1821. But it was also one of the most glorious where the Greek regular soldiers, a few Philhellenes and Iptanesians, fought something more than heroic although they knew that the barbarian
The genius of evil Blofeld came from Gdynia. Moreover, this opponent of Agent 007 from the books of Ian Fleming might have had a surprising historical prototype. Did the writer hear about him from the Polish superagent Krystyna Skarbek? The title secret organization that Bond has to deal with in
The kingdom of the Seleucids was one of the states that were created after the end of the wars of the Successors of Alexander the Great. For a time it was the largest and most powerful Hellenistic kingdom, controlling most of the lands conquered by the great soldier. Gradually, however, the kingd
The early Mycenaean army was one of the strongest of its time in the wider Eastern Mediterranean region. His main source of strength was his infantry trained to fight in dense formation with long spears and his light shock tanks. The chariots were two-wheeled, of light but sturdy construction and