As reported by Thucydides in 429 BC during the siege of Plataea, the Spartans, unable to break the Plataean resistance with the use of battering rams and flaming arrows, decided to set fire to the wall and its wooden extension. The Spartans collected a large amount of timber from coniferous tree
After the Germans had broken the defensive location at Klidis, the only hope left for the Greek forces was to cover the Kleisoura Strait, denying the Germans direct access to Kastoria, in the hope that the Greek armies that were still fighting the Italians in Northern Epirus they would have time to
In 1919, the First Army Corps (SS) was sent, at the request of the Allies, to Southern Russia, todays Ukraine, to fight, despite the side of French and Russian white forces, against the Bolsheviks. In this context, the main forces of the First SS landed, gradually, in Ukraine with the 2nd Infantr
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In the early 11th century it seemed that England was finally beginning to establish itself as a Saxon kingdom under the reign of the descendants of the Viking victor Alfred the Great. However, one of them Ethelred II, still fearful of the threat of the hord