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Strategos of the Twittercon. Degrees in Prehistoric & Roman Archaeology, & Law. Enjoyer of Roman & Medieval history.
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Today in AD 870: A Viking army was defeated by the men of Berkshire led by รthelwulf at the Battle of Englefield The battle saw two Earls and many other Norsemen die! [Thread]...
โBehold the morning star approaches. In his eyes the sun rays reflected. Our prince, the ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ This is a thread on the conquests of Nikephoros II Phokas!...
Today in AD 1204: Baldwin, Count of Flanders, was crowned Emperor in Constantinople after the Fourth Crusade army captured and sacked the city! Within a year he was defeated, cap...
๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐จ A Rus fleet set out in a ill-fated expedition to Constantinople intent on enlisting in the Varangian Guard but through their own obstinacy led to a disastro...
โข ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ โข The Queen of Cities, capital of the Roman Empire. The city been besieged 26 times since its founding in AD 324. This is a thread of the attempts to capture...
In AD 9: Three Roman legions were slaughtered in one of the most shocking and notorious defeats the Roman Empire had ever suffered. In the ๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ disaster! https://t.c...
Today in AD 627: Heraclius and his valiant Romans inflicted such a catastrophic defeat on the Persians that it sent their Empire spiralling into a cataclysmic civil war! And an e...
Today in AD 627 At the Battle of Nineveh, the Persian Empire was defeated once and for all by ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ โขOur latest commission artworkโข https:...
For American viewers who donโt know, the woman at the end warning about democracy is an unelected peer who sits House of Lords & can vote on legislation & canโt be voted out. She...
โKill them all; God will know His own.โ Today in AD 1209 the army of the Albigensian Crusade massacred the inhabitants of the town of Beziers. It was a day of butchery and blood...
The arms & armour of the Normans โข 11th-12th centuries AD โข [Thread] https://t.co/pd6MmeuJmu
Today in AD 1453 the dying embers of the Roman Empire were snuffed out forever. Just after midnight the Turkish assault on Constantinople began and Ottoman troops poured over the...