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Giuseppi Garibaldi and His Role in The Unification of Divided of Italy

Giuseppi Garibaldi, known as the Liberator in Italy, was born in Nice, the port of Piedmont-Sardinia. By 1824 he was a sailor and was...

The French Revolution – The Reign of Terror

At this time the Committee of Public Safety, set up by the Convention, came to be controlled by a lawyer and Jacobin radical named...

Napoleon I Bonaparte and His Rise to Power – From Nothing to Emperor

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history, changing the map of Europe and developing new...

Napoleon I Bonaparte – From Emperor to Exile

CONQUEST OF EUROPE Bonaparte returned to Italy, which had been taken back by the Austrians while he had been preoccupied in Egypt. He entered Italy...

List of The 10 Oldest National Anthems in Our History

10. Der er et yndigt land - 1835 Der er et yndigt land, translated into English as There is a lovely country, is one of the national anthems of Denmark....

10 Legendary Historical Swords That Actually Exist

1. The Sword of Saint Galgano One night the Archangel Michael appeared in a dream to Sir Galgano and beckoned to him to follow, for the Archangel...

Portuguese and Dutch colonization of Malacca

Malacca (Melaka) is a settlement that commands the strategically important Malacca Straits and thus the sea route linking China to the west. The Strait...

Ignatius of Loyola and the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)

Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and author of the spiritual classic The Spiritual Exercises, holds a...

Kongo Kingdom of Africa – The History of Kongo

The kingdom of the Kongo (Kongo dya Ntotila) flourished along the Congo River in the west-central coast of Africa from about the 14th century....

Hohenzollern Dynasty in Brandenburg and Prussia

The Hohenzollern family established a dynasty ruling the German kingdoms of Brandenburg (1415–1918) and Prussia (1525–1918) until the end of World War I (1914–18)....

Systematic Exploration of Africa by Europeans

Systematic exploration of Africa by Europeans began with James Bruce, who was born at Kinnaird in Scotland in 1730. After a century of bloody...

Russian Czar, Boris Godunov, the Regent King (c. 1551–1605)

Boris Godunov was born in about 1551 and was one of the transitional figures in a nation’s history who keeps the machinery of state...

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