The Place of Romania in European History, Part II
Kenneth Johnstone traces Romania's development, from the Crimean War to independence and enlargement.
Kenneth Johnstone traces Romania's development, from the Crimean War to independence and enlargement.
Alan Haynes describes how, menaced by the Turks, the Emperor Manuel sought western help on his visits to Italy, France and England.
During the Peninsular War, writes Michael Glover, British and French often treated one another with humanity and courtesy.
Simon de Montfort was an active commander in Gascony. William Seymour describes how, in 1264-5, the Anglo-Norman nobleman fought his two vital English battles at Lewes and Evesham.
After Hannibal’s defeat by Scipio Africanus, writes Zvi Yavetz, Carthage tried for some fifty years to live in peace with Rome.
Alton Ketchum describes the Founding Father's earliest military foray, against the French on the headwaters of the Ohio River.
Raymond Lamont Brown describes how this professional soldier’s greatest achievement was a splendid feat of peace-time engineering along lines that he himself laid down.
David Patten describes how the breech-loading rifle was newly used during the American War of Independence and how its founder Patrick Ferguson himself was slain in North Carolina, 1780.
Anthony Dent describes the battle order of a Roman Governor in Asia Minor during the second century, A.D.
Richard Barber examines recently unearthed sources to construct a convincing scenario of Edward III’s inspired victory over the French in 1346.