Aristocratic Fury
"We regarded war as entertainment, but it is a very real profession that wins and loses empires."
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Today 28 November is anniversary of the battle of Oliwa. Known as "the day when the sun went down at noon", this naval battle was fought in 1627 and saw the navy of the PolishβLit...
@HassansPropaga1 Every chronicle puts the numbers of Muslims much higher than Christian numbers. The fact that Muslims had a higher number is not disputed by any chronicle. The es...
25 November is anniversary of the battle of Montgisard fought in 1177. Crusaders managed to achieve a very important victory. Led by 16-year-old King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, the...
This map shows you just how complex the situation inside the crusader-conquered Baltic areas was. There was a long conflict between the Livonian Order and Bishop of Riga. At some...
Luther graffiti in the middle of Vatican! A reminder of the brutal sack of Rome in 1527 by the Imperial forces. There was a large amount of Protestants among the Landsknechte mer...
It's an ambush! Livonian Brothers of the Sword are assaulted by the Baltic pagans at the battle of Saule in 1236! The treacherous swampy ground was not good for Livonian heavy ca...
Joanna of Flanders defends the city of Hennebont in 1342 during the Breton War of Succession! She personally led a contingent of 300 knights to burn down the camp of the besiegers...
As a football fan I read how Fascist Italy tried to destroy such city factionalism in Italy, forcefully merging different football clubs from one city into a single team to avoid r...
The battle of Grunwald was one of the largest and bloodiest battles in the middle ages! In 1410, the forces of Teutonic Order faced the combined Polish-Lithuanian armies. The bat...
From studying the Ottoman response to Hunyadi's crusades in 1440s, it seems that they avoided the Hussite-style wagenburg tactics that Hunyadi like to employ like a plague. A wise...
Today 10 November is the anniversary of the battle of Varna fought in 1444. In a fierce battle, the Ottomans led by Sultan Murad II defeated the crusader army led by John Hunyadi...
The marriage of Venice with the sea! This was a ritual ceremony in the Republic of Venice where the Doge of Venice threw a golden ring into the Adriatic Sea from the state barge B...