Aristocratic Fury
"We regarded war as entertainment, but it is a very real profession that wins and loses empires."
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The exchange of New Year gifts! The medieval nobility celebrated the New Year's Day by exchanging lavish gifts. The Catholic Church didn't like this and viewed it as pagan in ori...
"In, in, everything is ours!" On this day 31 December in 1229, a group of 6 Christian soldiers managed to place the Senyera banner on one of the towers of Medina Mayurqa. After a...
"I came, I saw, and God won." Habsburg Emperor Charles V remarked after his victory over the Protestant Schmalkaldic League at MΓΌhlberg on 24 April 1547. This triumph marked the...
Clash between two groups of cuirassiers! On 5 February 1600, 22 Brabantine cavalrymen serving Spain agreed to fight 22 French cavalrymen in service of the Dutch Republic. This ch...
The battle of Lens in 1648 was one of the greatest victories of the famed French commander Louis de Bourbon, Prince of CondΓ©. Fought in the final stages of the Thirty Years' War,...
Powerful Italian dirigibles bomb Ottoman positions in Libya! The Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 was the first in history to feature aerial bombardment by airplanes and airships. Th...
The Erdapfel! This is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe made by Martin Behaim in Nuremberg between 1490-92. It was made before Columbus returned from his journey and without...
Reminder that galley slaves were an early modern phenomenon that did not exist in middle ages and was very rare in antiquity! In middle ages being a galley rower was a very honora...
In 2011 Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren made an incredible theme for the movie Nova Zembla about the ill-fated expedition of Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz to the Artic 1596-97. What a...
"Now they praise me because I gained riches without the least danger. But earlier when I risked my life in full combat they didn't even know I existed." Dutch admiral Piet Hein sa...
The War of Chioggia fought from 1378 to 1381 was another war in the series of conflicts between republics of Venice and Genoa, two maritime superpowers of the middle ages. Let's e...
The underwater graveyard near La Palma! In 1570 French Huguenot pirates murdered 40 Jesuit missionaries and threw their bodies into the sea off Tazacorte. These crosses were sunk...