Militares

In 1519, the Conquistador Hernán Cortés landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, floating like (...)

Although the F-4 Phantom II was the most important fighter-bomber to see action with all three American services during the Vietnam War, it was essentially a US Navy design, and the carrier-borne squadron crews were its main operators in combat.The aircraft pioneered the use of long-range, (...)

For the Romans, Britannia lay beyond the comfortable confines of the Mediterranean world around which classical civilisation had flourished. Britannia was felt to be at the outermost edge of the world itself, lending the island an air of dangerous mystique.To the soldiers crossing the Oceanus (...)

A highly illustrated account of one of Ancient Rome's most humiliating defeats, the battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, and how the embarrassment spurred the Roman Army on to eventual triumph.In its long history, the Roman Republic suffered many defeats, but none as humiliating as the Caudine (...)

Entré en la Brigada Paracaidista en noviembre de 1996. Me esperaban dos años y medio como fusilero de la Primera Compañía, y varios meses más en la Plana Mayor de la Primera Bandera. Me marcharía en febrero del año 2000, después de ascender a cabo. Mi vida militar incluye una misión a Bosnia, (...)

La Laureada de Syniavino refiere al hecho de armas en el que tomó parte el II/269 de la División Azul contra tropas soviéticas calculadas en cuatro regimientos que intentaron romper las líneas alemanas entre Schülsselburg y la población de Lipka, en la orilla del lago Ladoga para penetrar en (...)