Category Antiquity

The Battle of Normandy kicked off the spectacularly successful D-Day landings, thanks in large part to a stunning campaign of deception that completely misled German commanders. However, the penetration from Normandy was more problematic, and was only achieved after hard…

In one of the great battles of the Thirty Years’ War, the Lion of the North, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, faced a resurrected Imperial army under Wallenstein at Lützen. The Swedish king was defeated, though his troops regrouped and won…

Fra Angelico, 15th century Florentine painter. A contemporary of the Renaissance architects Alberti and Brunelleschi, his art still preserves, despite his incorporation of the new perspective, the imprint of the styles still prevailing in the Quattrocentosuch as Gothic and Byzantine.…

Cicero (M Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC) was born in Arpino about 100 km. southeast of Rome, in a family of equestrian order.He studied law with Mucio Escévola and was a member of the army, participating in the revolts of the…

The Battle of Waterloo was the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars that saw the French Emperor’s ambitions crushed in one fell swoop. Despite his former brilliance in the campaign, Napoleon was unable to defeat the Allied armies, and the…

The church functioned in America, as in Spain, it had a hierarchy that served its episcopal and religious component.. The diocesan hierarchy, bishops and archbishops, was appointed according to the procedures regulated by the Board of Trustees. In this way,…

Religion was essential to the Etruscan people. The Etruscan religion was very different from those of the surrounding peoples, Greek and Latin, since it is a religion revealed by a fabulous character, tageswhich had emerged one day from the furrow…

The 30 Years War is one of the most important events of the Modern Age for several reasons: Because from her came the religious freedom for several states. Because in its course notable warriors such as Gustavo Adolfo, Wallenstein and…

A year after his coronation as Emperor, at the culmination of the greatest campaign of his career, Napoleon defeated the combined Russian and Austrian armies at Austerlitz, where he, his generals, and superbly trained troops demonstrated… the battle of austerlitz…

The Sumerians were pioneers, both in writing and in mathematics. They also built magnificent buildings, including those huge stepped pyramids called ziggurats. They also produced remarkable craftsmanship, carving small statues and inlaid with different precious stones. Nobody knows how… the…

During the War of the Spanish Succession, the Duke of Marlborough led a march across Europe to defeat a superior Franco-Bavarian force at Blenheim on the Danube.. This victory not only ensured the safety of the Habsburg capital, but also…

The Spanish Renaissance was as vigorous as the Italian, but in Spain literature reached a brilliance that was unrivaled in any other country in Europe. And painting, as well as architecture, were also developed through truly creative schools. The… spanish…