With the increasing power of the individual feudal lords, the old Alemania and Burgundy disintegrated into many separate possessions.
In 1218, the Duke of Zähringen's...
South Carolina announced secession shortly after Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, and by February 1861 six more southern states had made...
Napoleonic Wars
In foreign policy, the Danish government maintained the principle of non-intervention. The close alliance with Russia, however, forced Denmark to raise weapons against...