Gonzalo Fernández de Cordoba, better known as The Great Military Captain, was a 15th-century Spanish soldier who is credited with creating the first professional Spanish army. At the end of the century, the Catholic Monarchs decide to reconquer the kingdom of Granada and expel the Moors from Spanish
The peltasts, in contrast to the psilouis, are conventionally characterized as light infantry, simply because they were lighter than the hoplites. In reality the peltasts were multi-role infantry, an intermediate type between heavy infantry and acrobats. Peltastes were the main type of infantry in t
Nikiphoros Phokas, in order to face the Bulgarian threat on the northern borders of the Byzantine Empire, called the Russian ruler Sviatoslav for help. He accepted with enthusiasm and invaded Bulgaria in AD 968 The Bulgarian Tsar Peter then accepted the terms of the Byzantines and capitulated. Bu
The German ships at no time hid their nationality, nor did they pretend to act as subordinate support to the rebel side, but rather as a naval force that executed direct orders of the III Reich Nazi Germany mercilessly bombed the city of Almería in the middle of the civil war. More than 200 shel