Bannockburn
King Edward I was a tough old monarch. He was a ruthless and effective combat commander who required servitude, rectitude and compliance with English …
Medieval Europe
The French Revolution Was Not Started By The Masses. Rather, By The Upper Classes
The populations of European nations in the middle of the 18th century put France clearly as the western world leader with 28 million people …
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The Varangians : Royal Guards And Mercenaries.
When Vikings migrated eastwards they went as traders, or they went as raiders. When they happened upon a settlement they gambled whether it would …
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Religion And Genocide.
The Battle For Jerusalem It is telling that religion is a place where often the insane find solace for crimes that could never be …
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The Country Of Edessa, Formed After The First Crusades, Lasted Only 50 Years.
The Crusades were of course a series of Christian invasions of Muslim held lands in the Levant. All of the Crusades were called …
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The Final Route On The Silk Road Was The Oregon Trail.
The Oregon Trail was first created by trappers who followed, mapped and engineered Indian trading routes and extended their use and mobility. Thomas Jefferson …
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Crécy.
Edward III Counts The Dead After The Battle Of Crécy At the end of this long bell weather day, the flower of the French aristocracy, …
The Unintended Consequences of Conquest.
When the Romans were building out permanent roads, connecting the kingdoms under their purview around the Mediterranean, Christianity was rising and supplanting …
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Earliest Spanish Settlement In North America Found In North Carolina.
Morgantown NC Today This is really cool. In the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, archeologists have located the remnants of a 16th …
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The Ulfberht Sword. One Of the First Weapon Brands.
The word Ulfberht is a Frankish Name. Perhaps it is an indication of its actual place of …
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The Sack of Magdenburg.
The Thirty Years War was a battle to end the absolute totalitarian Catholic church rule over the ways to God, as it were. It …
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Beware The Landsknecht.
Landknecht Landknecht With Wife Well, you have to be careful what you wish for. Or ask for. When Byzantine Emperor Alexios asked Urban …
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No Knights Did NOT Have To Be Lifted On Their Horses Because Their Armor Weighed So Much.
It was during the filming of Henry, that the Master of the Armories at the Tower of London, Sir James Mann, had an absolute …
In The Mid 11th Century, Europe Was A Boiling Pot Of Oil. All It Needed Was A Match.
Herod and Solomon’s Temples are trod upon, the Jews are sent into diaspora. Christ is killed. Mohammed has ascended. The remnants of the Roman …
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Politics From The Second Crusade To Hattin.
One hundred thousand Christians marched into the Mid East and took Jerusalem. Along the way they had fought, pillaged, plundered, and laid siege to every …
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The First Crusade. The Reasons We Do This Haven’t Changed.
When Alexius, governor of Constantinople send an envoy to the Vatican to ask the Pope for help building an army, he expected a …
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Ruminations On The Thirty Years War.
The Thirty Years War was a difficult, confused and extremely bloody confrontation between a numbers of city-states in Europe. The city-state was beginning to emerge …
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Ruminations On Knights
Knights had an analogue organization in modern America. Ostensibly they were there to protect the weak, orphans, widows, and the poor, later to reclaim Jerusalem …
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