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Not so long ago in the publishing house "Eksmo / Yauza" in the series "The best warriors of history" my book "The Crusaders. The first complete encyclopedia”. It tells in detail about all the crusaders of Europe, but … there was no place for the conquistador of the New World. And, in general, there is nothing terrible in this. These are
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A terrible state - to order, without having real power to ensure the execution of the order, except for his own authority. From a letter from A.V. Kolchak to L.V. Timereva, Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, his fate in a few years made many sharp turns. At first he commanded the Black Sea Fleet
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If only he himself had the Inca Thin food and coca leaves. Our llamas perish when crossing the sandy highlands. And our legs are tormented by thorns, And if we do not want to die of thirst in military service, We must drag water over great distances on our backs. (Poem "Apu-Ollantai". Stingle
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Before us is a frame from the Spanish-American film "Black Arrow" (1985). But in fact, we see before us … the revived effigy! “And he said to them: thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: put each of your sword on your thigh, go through the camp from gate to gate and back, and each kill his brother
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The White movement failed primarily on the fronts of the Civil War. Scientists still cannot give an unambiguous answer to the question of the reasons for the defeat of the white armies, meanwhile, it is enough to look at the balance of forces and means of the parties during the decisive operations of the Civil War, and it will become
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A number of Russian historians, researchers of the 18-20 centuries and modern times believed and still believe that the so-called. Scythians and related peoples (Cimmerians, Sarmatians, Roxalans, etc.) are directly related to Russia, the Russian people, the super-ethnos of the Rus. For example, Boris Rybakov believed that
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Bonnie and Clyde. Still from 2013 movie You read Jesse Jamesao's story of how he lived and died, but if you want to read more, here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde. (Poems by Bonnie Parker) Weapons and firms. Last time we got acquainted with the original John Browning M8 rifle and today we will continue
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The first salvo of the Second World War. Source: www.rech-pospolita.ru As noted by V.M. Falin, “it is usually omitted that the Soviet side, after the signing of the Moscow - S.L. the treaty tried to maintain contacts with London and Paris. Molotov told the French ambassador Najiar: “A non-aggression pact with
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On September 19, 1609, the defense of Smolensk began. The siege of the fortress lasted 20 months, becoming one of the glorious pages in the history of our Motherland. The city began to be subjected to methodical shelling, to which the Smolensk gunners responded not without success. A mine war began. Poles let down underground mines
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Swordsmanship. "The Bible of Matsievsky", 1224-1254 Paris, France. Pierpont Morgan Library "… took his sword and drew it from its scabbard" (1 Kings, 17:51) History of weapons. Last time we finished looking at medieval swords on swords "type XII", noting that they begin to change shape
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Napoleon with the headquarters. Painting by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (Wikimedia Commons) Regardless of Napoleon's Headquarters, the Grand Army had headquarters of different levels. In wartime, several corps formed into an army that could sometimes act independently on the periphery of Europe: in Spain or Italy. For
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"The last battle of Svyatoslav's squad in the battle of Dorostol, 971". Artist M. Ivanov 1050 years ago, the Byzantine army struck a surprise blow at the allied Bulgarian-Russian squads. The Romans took the Bulgarian capital Preslav by storm and laid siege to Dorostol, where the camp of Svyatoslav Igorevich was located. Greeks
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A caricature of President Taft's "dollar diplomacy". American imperialism throughout its history has used various methods in foreign policy: from overt military aggression to financial enslavement. If the negotiations did not give the Americans the desired results, then the intractable
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Yes, who does not know (okay, someone may not know) the gallant partisan, poet, swordsman, hussar Denis Davydov? Many people know from the films. But I bet that many have not read Davydov, it is not fashionable in our time. In general, the poetry of Denis Davydov is original. A lot of poems are read, say
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A still from the film "Emergency on a regional scale" (1988). Very realistic motion picture. The nomenclature is on vacation! “… And it started raining, and rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and rushed to that house, and it did not fall, because it was based on a stone. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not fulfill them will become like
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About Rozhdestvensky's incompetence as a naval commander We’ll talk about tactics later, but now I’ll just quote the words of the British historian Westwood: For coal steam ships of the pre-turbine era, the voyage from Libau to the Sea of Japan, with no friendly bases along the way, was a real feat
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Grand Duke Svyatoslav the Brave. Artist I. Ozhiganov War of attrition The siege of Dorostol dragged on until July 971. Neither the Emperor Tzimiskes nor Svyatoslav were able to achieve a quick victory. The Greeks, despite the surprise of the attack and the large numerical superiority, were unable to crush the Russian squads
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On December 4-6, 1864, a hundred Ural Cossacks under the command of Esaul V.R. Serova took a heroic battle against more than ten thousand army of Khan Mulla-Alimkul, near Ikan (20 versts from Turkestan). A detachment sent to conduct a reconnaissance encountered hundreds of times superior
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Afghanistan. Mujahid with Stinger during the fighting against government forces. 1988 Photo: TASS A military alliance between the United States, Britain, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Afghan mujahideen was formed. The Saudis provided finance, helped create an Islamist "fifth column"
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On the entire front, there was the only place where the Germans were never able to cross the state border of the Soviet Union. She was held by 135 joint ventures. The shocked Germans filmed the shooting of our guys on camera, trying to unravel the mystery of their invincibility. On the eve of the Great Victory Day, it is necessary to remember what was on
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The obsession of Ronald Reagan's team was to disrupt the construction of a gas pipeline from Yamal to Europe. The United States did its best to undermine Moscow's oil and gas revenues. However, the USSR took over in the 1981-1984 gas war. Artery Urengoy - Europe Stretching two pipelines to Western Europe, Moscow
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In the previous article "Cossacks in the Great Patriotic War" it was shown that, despite all the insults and atrocities of the Bolsheviks against the Cossacks, the overwhelming majority of Soviet Cossacks resisted their patriotic positions and took part in the war on the side of the Red
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German soldiers at the call, written on the blackboard: "Russians must die for us to live." In the center of the group photo sits a non-commissioned officer of the Luftwaffe. Occupied district of the Bryansk region "Russian must die!" - under this slogan the German Nazis invaded Russia. They came
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British soldiers look at Baghdad. 1941 General situation With the outbreak of World War II, the Near and Middle East acquired additional military-strategic and economic importance. Berlin and Rome tried to use national liberation movements, anti-British and anti-French
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“This day is one of the great days of military glory: the Russians saved Moscow and honor; approved Astrakhan and Kazan as our citizenship; They avenged the ashes of the capital and, if not forever, then at least for a long time appeased the Crimeans, filling them with the corpses of the bowels of the earth between Lopasnea and Rozhay, where until now
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The mysterious Varangian-Rus, who came together to Rurik in Novgorod, and with Oleg to Kiev, were very soon almost completely assimilated and literally dissolved in a large Slavic country, leaving behind only a name. Under Vladimir Svyatoslavich, other Varangians appeared in Russia - hired
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On March 22, 1927, White General Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovin founded and headed the Foreign Higher Military Scientific Courses in Paris, which were a kind of successor to the Imperial Academy of the General Staff. In subsequent years, departments of the Courses were opened in a number of other centers of the White emigration
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The American military historical literature on the conflict in Korea created the following picture of events, which became widely known: the few American pilots of the F-86 were opposed by hordes of MiGs, and for every downed Saber there were 15 Soviet
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An article from the archive, posted on 2013-03-01 The history of the development of all mankind is closely related to the use of alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is actually an Arabic word, meaning something special, exquisite. And the birth of fermented beverages dates back to the founding of agriculture, that is, about
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Along with the well-known Wild Division, the Russian Imperial Army also had another national unit that covered itself with no less glory - the Tekinsky Cavalry Regiment. Unfortunately, it is less known than the Wild Division, which is largely due to the lesser preservation of its documents in the archives, and
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"Solar boat" of the Pharaoh Cheops. A model from the Sun Boat Museum near its pyramid “Glory to you, Osiris, God of Eternity, king of the gods, whose names are innumerable, whose incarnations are sacred. You are a sacred image in temples; the twin soul will always be sacred to the mortals who come.”(Ancient Egyptian Book
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Tank IS-2 of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps (Czechoslovak combined arms formation as part of the 4th Ukrainian Front of the Red Army) in the center of Prague. May 10, 1945 In the Czech Republic, they talk about the "skeletons in the closet" that have remained in history after the Second World War. However, if your fellow citizens
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Of course, six were destroyed by more than one blow, but if we talk about the time frame, then six submarines in less than two weeks - this is quite a masterpiece. Moreover, the hero of our today's story is a ship, in general, and not very serious. Our today's hero is a modest one
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From the school textbook and newsreels, I got the impression that the Act of Germany's unconditional surrender was signed by only two persons: from the Soviet side, Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov and from the German side, Field Marshal Keitel. Even the Faculty of History of Tverskoy
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Soviet hospital ship "Armenia" Motor ship "Armenia" In the mid-1920s, shipbuilding, including civil shipbuilding, was actively restored in Soviet Russia. The design bureau of the Baltic Shipyard has developed a project for a motor ship of the "Adjara" type. In 1927-1928, six
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Exotic Hitler's Palace in Ukraine "Werewolf" with aqua entertainment and a casino was built as the most gigantic elite office and residential complex in Europe in wartime format, consisting of at least 80 buildings. How is Hitlertown? In the previous article "Hitler's Palace in Ukraine: Secret Trips" we managed in detail
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Sixty years ago, on October 26, 1955, the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed on the territory of South Vietnam. To some extent, this decision predetermined the further development of events on the long-suffering Vietnamese land - for another twenty years on the long-suffering Vietnamese it continued
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After the sovereign's abdication, on March 2, 1917, as the first act of manifestation of its activities, it sent a decree throughout the country, which proclaimed: - A full and immediate amnesty for all matters - political and religious, including terrorist attempts
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Attack of Soviet torpedo boats. The German command decided to lead the first convoy with supplies for Army Group North across the Irbensky Strait to the Gulf of Riga on July 12, 1941. The timing of the caravan was well chosen - the Soviet naval aviation did not conduct reconnaissance on July 11 and 12
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War with the Byzantine Empire Coup in Byzantium. On December 11, 969, as a result of a coup, the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus Phocas was killed, and John Tzimiskes was on the imperial throne. Nicephorus Phocas fell at the zenith of his glory: in October, the imperial army captured Antioch. Nicephorus summoned a strong