The irruption of machine guns and the new breech-loading artillery pieces on the battlefield brought cavalry to an end during World War I as Generals were forced to change the traditional military tactics. These automatic weapons, which were by-products of the Second Industrial Revolution, gave infantry and artillery such an impressive fire power that troops [...]

The fall of the Roman Empire did not occur overnight in 476 with the deposition of Romulus Augustulus by the Heruli through a military deed or feat, but it was rather a slow, corroding process of decadence that had began almost three centuries before, with the death of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the Five [...]

The main reason why the United States lost the war in Vietnam was that the popular support for the US involvement in that armed conflict had been eroded, due to the media influence, especially after the Tet Offensive launched by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces on January 31, 1968. Although it seemed at the [...]

The Defenestration of Prague was the act of throwing the two Catholic Regents of the House of Habsburg out of the palace window, in Prague, on May 23, 1618, by a group of Protestants, led by Count Thurn, sparking the Bohemian Revolt and, thus, the Thirty Years War. The defenestration was an open Protestant rebellion [...]

The Bohemian Revolt was a rebellion of Protestants against the Habsburgs, which took place in Bohemia in 1618. The Habsburgs were a dynasty of Catholics Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire (Austria and Germany). It began when Prince Crown Ferdinand, Emperor Mathias’ son and heir to the Holy Roman Empire, and King of Bohemia, sent [...]

The Russian Revolution was a violent political upheaval and popular revolt that took place in Russia in 1917 and which overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, replacing the monarchic government with a communist regime, headed by Vladimir Lenin. It began in February 1917, with worker strikes and demonstrations to demand higher wages and food as extremist socialist [...]