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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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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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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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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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Tsuba.
Tsuba are the swordguards on Samurai swords. They are small round slabs of metal, about four ounces at most. In the center is a long …
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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The Poodle And The Peninsular War
During the Peninsular War, close proximity between troops and citizen often resulted in fraternizations of all sorts. In 1813, a young French matron was …
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The Mollwitz Grey.
Frederick the Soldier King was trapped behind enemy lines with nothing between him, and escape from Prussian troops at Mollwitz. There he was carried to …
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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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The Three Waves. Why Ninth And Tenth Century Europe Sucked.
There are some stubborn romantic notions of Kings ensconced in cozy castles, in repose by vast fireplaces, the air thick with the scents and sounds …
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Haunted Hastings Castle.
October 14th, 1066 AD. 700 Norman ships appear in the choppy waters of the English Channel, make their way onto the beaches and …
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The First Crusade. The Rabble And The Tragedy.
1095. Alexis Comnenus is busy. He is preparing to defend Constantinople from the hordes of mounted Arab warriors who have begun a long process …
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French Knight Fall.
The thing about military industrial complexes, is that they often act only to keep themselves comfortable and happy and forget the higher goals that …
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The Artillery of the Middle Ages
Trebuchets were early forms of artillery, that used a counterweight and a high radial throwing arm to toss projectiles into or over castle walls. Here …
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