The battle of Konitsa was not a simple event in the three-year war, now known as the Greek Civil War. It was a conflict of catalytic importance, mainly on a political level. The heroic resistance of the small and isolated garrison for more than a week led to the wreck of the grandiose and utopian pl
Born in England in 1682, little else is known about the life of Jack Rackham before 1718. He began his career as bosun to another pirate, Charles Vane , on his ship the Ranger . However, shortly after Vane refused to seize a French ship, the crew deposed him, abandoned him on a desert island, and
Signed on April 13, 1598 by King Henry IV at the end of the Wars of Religion, the Edict of Nantes fixed the status of Protestants in the kingdom of France. Relatively favorable to the Huguenots, to whom he attributed freedom of worship, civil equality as well as strongholds, he was dismissed by Loui
The republican government would come to form integrated combat columns by the remains of the loyal military units, the Civil Guard, the Assault Guard and by volunteer militiamen, but in those of the rebels the Civil Guard had less weight, which was assigned more frequently to police work in the rear