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King Edward I was a tough old monarch. He was a ruthless and effective combat commander who required servitude, rectitude and compliance with English …
King Edward I was a tough old monarch. He was a ruthless and effective combat commander who required servitude, rectitude and compliance with English …
The populations of European nations in the middle of the 18th century put France clearly as the western world leader with 28 million people …
The French Revolution Was Not Started By The Masses. Rather, By The Upper Classes Read More »
When Vikings migrated eastwards they went as traders, or they went as raiders. When they happened upon a settlement they gambled whether it would …
The Battle For Jerusalem It is telling that religion is a place where often the insane find solace for crimes that could never be …
The Crusades were of course a series of Christian invasions of Muslim held lands in the Levant. All of the Crusades were called …
The Country Of Edessa, Formed After The First Crusades, Lasted Only 50 Years. Read More »
The Oregon Trail was first created by trappers who followed, mapped and engineered Indian trading routes and extended their use and mobility. Thomas Jefferson …
The Final Route On The Silk Road Was The Oregon Trail. Read More »
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, …
When the Romans were building out permanent roads, connecting the kingdoms under their purview around the Mediterranean, Christianity was rising and supplanting …
Morgantown NC Today This is really cool. In the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, archeologists have located the remnants of a 16th …
Earliest Spanish Settlement In North America Found In North Carolina. Read More »
The word Ulfberht is a Frankish Name. Perhaps it is an indication of its actual place of …
The Ulfberht Sword. One Of the First Weapon Brands. Read More »
The Thirty Years War was a battle to end the absolute totalitarian Catholic church rule over the ways to God, as it were. It …
Landknecht Landknecht With Wife Well, you have to be careful what you wish for. Or ask for. When Byzantine Emperor Alexios asked Urban …
It was during the filming of Henry, that the Master of the Armories at the Tower of London, Sir James Mann, had an absolute …
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 …
In The Mid 11th Century, Europe Was A Boiling Pot Of Oil. All It Needed Was A Match. Read More »
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 …
When Alexius, governor of Constantinople send an envoy to the Vatican to ask the Pope for help building an army, he expected a …
The First Crusade. The Reasons We Do This Haven’t Changed. Read More »
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 …
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 …