Militares

Por fin se parte. Nos reúnen ante el Hotel Des Chutes, en donde ha establecido su base uno de los grupos mercenarios, y tomamos asiento, sobre cajas de municiones, a bordo de un camión. Voy prensado entre un gigantesco flamenco y una ametralladora reluciente de aceite. El flamenco, cosa increíble (...)

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

During the American War of Independence (1775-83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results. (...)