In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, on rare occasions, sanity prevailed and to avoid unnecessary bloodshed, it was agreed that the battle in question would be decided by a duel between the champions of each side. When Tulio Hostilio (673 – 641 BC), the third king of Rome, declared war on the city of
At the beginning of the 17th century, the situation in Castile, from where until then the men and taxes that Carlos I and Felipe II needed for their hegemonic and religious policy in Europe had come from, was no longer the same as that of the previous century. It was exhausted, bankrupt, overwhelm
Entry taken from the book From Covadonga to Tamarón . On December 20, 910, one of the most important kings of the medieval peninsular kingdoms died:Alfonso III the Great. His rise to the throne was not easy. When the King of Asturias Ordoño I died, his eldest son, Alfonso, was eighteen years old a
Klaus Barbie is an SS officer of the SD (German Counterintelligence Services) who arrived in France in June 1942. The one who has already stood out in Russia, for his qualities in the fight against insurgency, quickly becomes the head of the Gestapo Lyonnaise (February 1943). Nicknamed the execution