Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets Henry of Monmouth was born in the castle of the same name on September 17, 1387. He was the son of Henry Bolingbroke and Mary de Bohun. In principle, his family branch was not destined to reign in England, since they were descendants of the third son of Ed
After a siege that had lasted six months, the gates of Valencia were opened for the Cids army on June 15, 1094, and Rodrigo entered the city the following day. The conquest of Valencia was not only a moral blow for the Muslims of the peninsula, but also seriously endangered the Almoravid domains clo
Contrary to what the Greek left has been arguing for decades, the Greek civil war did not start in 1946 with the attack on Litochoro. It had started much earlier, when the country was still under foreign occupation. The incidents with the dissolution of EKKA and the murder of Dimitrios Psarros and m
Coming from the lower classes of Paris, the sans-culottes are radical patriots who campaign for greater justice, equal political rights, and equal distribution of property. The Parisian rioters of 1789 are called sans-culottes because they wear trousers:under the Ancien Régime, trousers were reserve