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History of Switzerland During the High Middle Ages – Swiss Union

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...

History of Switzerland During the Early Middle Ages

In 496, the Alemanni were conquered by Clovis, in 534 the Burgundians were his sons; after that, Retia was ceded by the Ostgoths to...

History of Switzerland During Ancient Times

Switzerland before the Roman conquest Since ancient times, the Swiss Plateau - a region surrounded by the Alps from the south and east, Lake Geneva...

History of War Elephants

Usage and Ancient History In Antiquity and the Middle Ages, war elephants were a formidable force due to the awesome effect they had on the...

American Civil War – Year 1865

March of Sherman to the sea Sherman marched from Atlanta on November 15, 1864 in the direction of Savannah. In this case, the northerners had...

Battle for Fort Sumter – Start of the American Civil War – Part 1

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...

Slight Background on the Civil War and Disintegration of the Union

In the first half of the 19th century, in the USA, the agrarian slaveholding South and the industrial North existed as separate economic regions....

Manassas Campaign – American Civil War

By the beginning of the summer of 1861, two field armies of the Confederation were in Northern Virginia. General Beauregard commanded the Potomac Army,...

The West Virginia Campaign – Rich Mountain Campaign

The Western Virgins campaign, also known as Operation West Virginia, is the fighting that took place during the American civil war on the territory...

Weapons of the American Civil War

The American Civil War had a huge impact on the development of military equipment. In fact, it was the first war of the industrial...

American Civil War – Year 1863

The campaign of 1863 was a turning point of the war, although its beginning was unsuccessful for the northerners. In January 1863, Joseph Hooker...

American Civil War – Year 1862 – Part 2

Maryland Campaign On September 4, 1862, General Lee's army entered Maryland, intending to cut off the communications of the federal army and isolate Washington during...

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