Ancient History
According to the most common version, the appearance of the first representatives of a kind of people (Neanderthals) on the territory of modern...
In the First World War (1914–1918), the territory of Belarus once again became the scene of active hostilities: in 1915 the German territories occupied...
As a result of the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772), Vitebsk and Polotsk were ceded to Russia. The Mogilev province was formed...
Landsknecht were German hired infantry of the Renaissance. The term was first introduced into use around 1470 by Peter van Hagenbach, the chronicler of...
18th and 19th Centuries
Grenadier units were already perceived as elite at that time, and received various privileges. For example, in many armies, the privilege...
The Gentleman Pirate was born as Stede Bonnet to a moderately wealthy family. Bonnet turned his comfortable life around and ventured towards a life of crime in becoming a pirate.
