In 1212, just eight years after the knights of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople, a group of thirty thousand children crossed half of Europe on their way to Jerusalem. His mission, entrusted by Jesus Christ through an apparition, was to reconquer the Holy City, under Muslim control. The episo
Today we mourn the loss, four years ago, of teacher Peter Connolly , British historian and illustrator, whose works have illuminated classical antiquity for generations of readers. For many, the last charge of the Spartans at Thermopylae, the clash of triremes at Salamis or Alexanders phalanx at Hyd
The year 2019 had a special significance for a historic aircraft, one of the most famous in the whole planet, the legendary Dakota. Seventy-five years after D-Day, twelve restored C-47s with crews of volunteers and veterans made a trip of historical memory from the US to Europe as part of the Daks O
Alfonso XIII was king of Spain . He was born on May 17, 1886 in Madrid, and was given the names of Alfonso León Fernando María Isidro Pascua Antonio de Borbón and Habsburg. He was the posthumous son of Alfonso XII and his second wife, María Cristina. He was born almost six months after the death of