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
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets George, Duke of Clarence, is a unique case in history. Brother of two kings of England, Edward IV and Richard III, related by marriage to a man who became known as the Enthroner for his ability to decide who sat on the throne of England during the Wars of t
The Albigensian Crusade (1209-1229) is a war started by the papacy to fight the Cathar heresy. Increasingly powerful in Languedoc, the latter considered that the Church governed by the Pope was corrupt and incapable of combating the Evil that reigns over the terrestrial world. Responding to the call
Residents of mid-19th-century San Francisco were used to seeing all kinds of quirky characters on their streets. The gold rush was on its last legs and a veritable tide of outlaws, settlers, opportunists, and people of the most diverse stripes had flocked like flies to honey, attracted by the promis