Militares

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she (...)

Walter Katz (1913-1938), judío alemán, luchó como estudiante universitario contra el ascenso del nazismo desde principio de los años treinta. Por motivos raciales, en 1933 tuvo que abandonar su carrera académica y llegó a España, donde completó sus estudios en la Universidad de Madrid y obtuvo la (...)

The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the (...)