The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle that took place between the Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek city-states in 480 BC. The battle was fought in the straits between the mainland and the island of Salamis, near Athens. The Greek fleet, led by the Athenian general Themistocles, defeated the much larger Persian fleet, led by the Persian king Xerxes I. The victory at Salamis marked a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars, and is considered one of the most important battles in history.
The Egyptian campaign is a military expedition to the East led by General Bonaparte from 1798 to 1800, as part of the fight against England, the only power to maintain hostilities against Revolutionary France. Appointed by the Directory to lead the expedition to Egypt in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte sec
The first failure to liberate the island of Tilos led the allied administration to the decision to come back with strong forces. The new operation was decided to take place on 27 February 1945. For the new operation strong forces were indeed assembled, with two detachments of the Holy Company, which
The fact that we are going to analyse, although it is part of the History of Spain, is closely linked both with the evolution of the Second World War and with the way in which it ended. This conflict began to change its fate – on the western front, on the eastern front it had done so before – after
The Byzantine Empire survived over 1000 years with its powerful army as its support. An important power multiplier of the Imperial armies was the well-trained heavy infantry, the famous Scutati (shield-bearing, from the Latin word scutum =shield) infantry. The Skutatoi, in that period, were orga