Leaving for the front. This is a subject that is little discussed in the writing of history on the First World War. If the fights are always very well described, the one-way trip to death, for many men, is not often studied. How do they reach eastern France, or the other different European fronts su
Louis XIV , nicknamed the Great » or « the Sun King was King of France from 1643 to 1715. During his long reign, the most famous of the Bourbons waged numerous and costly wars across Europe, while modernizing the administration and intervening in the economic development of the kingdom. Having chose
Elephants were domesticated by humans and used like horses as draft animals. But early on it was realized that the great physical strength of the elephant could also be used for war purposes. In India war elephants evolved into the main parts of the war machines of the rulers of the region, but also
There are textbooks that do not include Hannibal or Scipio, but there are no high school world history textbooks that do not include Reform of the Gracchi Brothers. And even high school students who are very good at world history will hardly be able to explain the reform of the Gracchi brothers pr