This is the history and origins of the Mossos dEsquadra and the Civil Guard . The Mossos dEsquadra were designed and created by King Felipe V with a dual purpose:to stop the criminals and bandits who were scattered throughout the towns, roads and mountains in Catalonia, and to put an end to the Aust
After the conquest of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, a Christian kingdom was established in the Mediterranean Levant, within Muslim territory, which would survive for two centuries, until the fall of Saint John of Acre. After Godfrey of Bouillón take the title of Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri , Pr
The Middle Ages are considered the dark epoch. War, disease and oppression were not the norm in the roughly 1000 years between antiquity and modern times. Middle Ages - whats that supposed to be? Terrible events such as the Hundred Years War, the Crusades and the plague occurred in the roughly 1000
I saw a lot of scattered crossbones, a pair of skulls and unbitten hands with bloody fingers - described the terrified hero of Daniel Defoes book, a shipwrecked man lost on an exotic island. He realized that he could come face to face with a savage horde hungry for human flesh. But he did not expect