This is a blog about world history in general, world war ii, i, vietnam war, middle ages, boer war, weapons, and biographies of famous people, etc.
The C14 Timberwolf is an 8.60mm bolt-action sniper rifle developed and manufactured by PGW Defence Technologies for the Canadian Armed Forces. It has been in service with the Canadian Special Forces since 2005 and was used successfully in Afghanistan. The C14 military version is fitted with a 26in-long reinforced free-floating barrel, made by Kreiger. The [...]
Fought in a succession of fierce clashes, the Battle of Ulm was a five-day-long military engagement between the French Army, under Napoleon, and the Austrian forces, commanded by Mack von Libereich, from October 14 to October 19, 1805, near the city of Ulm, Germany, during the Napoleonic Wars. It was part of Napoleon’s Ulm Campaign [...]
When the noise of World War II subsided, many domestic problems, most of them economic ones, cropped up on the political horizon in England, such as unemployment and a huge debt due to the returning soldiers and war effort. Although the English people approved of Churchill as a war leader, they preferred another man for [...]
The Richard Nixon Administration was the period of government of President Richard Nixon, Republican, taking place from 1969 to 1974. In 1968, in a well-managed national convention, Republicans had nominated Richard M Nixon for president and Spiro T Agnew of Maryland for vice-president, who won the national election in November that year, defeating the Democratic [...]
In the 20th century the United States of America suffered two oil-related energy crises, both of them taking place in the 1970s; the first one during Richard Nixon Administration and the second under Carter. The 1973 oil crisis arose as a direct result of an oil embargo imposed on America by the Arab countries, who [...]
The Argentine Mauser M1891 was a 7.65mm, bolt-action rifle manufactured in Germany by Mauser for the Argentine Army from 1891. It was an accurate, well-made gun used by the Argentinian infantry, but there was also an M1891 carbine version, with a shorter barrel, made for the cavalry. It was fitted with a fixed five-round box [...]
