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The Thirty Years' WarAuthor: Wallbank Date: 2002The Thirty Years' WarSpain's golden age had ended, but the religious and political strife ofdynasties continued with even greater intensity. Despite the weakening ofSpain, other nations still feared a Habsburg resurgence and other dynastiessought to wi...

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By Plutarch (died 30 B.C.E.) The grandfather of Antony was the famous pleader, whom Marius put to death for having taken part with Sylla. His father was Antony, surnamed of Crete, not very famous or distinguished in public life, but a worthy good man, and particularly remarkable for his liberality, ...

World War One, The Marne At the end of August 1914, the three armies of the German invasion's northern wing were sweeping south towards Paris. The French 5th and 6th Armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were in retreat. General Alexander von Kluck, commander of the German Ist Army, was o...

Ancient Egypt, An Overview The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization, which many regard as one of the fountainheads of Western culture, cannot be established with certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that early dwellers in the Nile Valley were influenced by cultures of the Near East, but t...

A History of Ancient Greece The Glory That Was GreeceAuthor: Jewsbury, Lewis (1992) Homeric Legend 800 BC: Homeric writings1186 BC: The Trojan War The Trojan War, steeped in legend and myth through Homer’s writings, likely reflects a historical conflict. This war marked Greek expansion into Asia Min...

NUMA POMPILIUS by Plutarch Though the pedigrees of noble families of Rome go back in exact form asfar as Numa Pompilius, yet there is great diversity amongst historiansconcerning the time in which he reigned; a certain writer calledClodius, in a book of his entitled Strictures on Chronology, avers t...

Ancient Egypt, Cleopatra Written by Edith Hamilton, W.W. Norton Inc. 1986 now in the Library of Congress and reprinted by permission b. 69 BCd. Aug. 30, 30 BC, Alexandria "She captivated the two greatest Romans of her day, and because of the third she destroyed herself." Cleopatra Ptolemy was the d...

John B. Gordon, In his own words b. Feb. 6, 1832, Upson county, Ga., U.S.d. Jan. 9, 1904, Miami, Fla. Confederate military leader and post-American Civil War politician who symbolized the shift from agrarian to commercial ideals in the Reconstruction South. Gordon accomplished little of note during ...

A History of Ancient Greece Sparta In ancient Greece, the great rival of Athens was Sparta. The city-state and its surrounding territory were located on the Peloponnesus, a peninsula southwest of Athens. Sparta (also called Lacedaemon) was the capital of the district of Laconia. From the vigorous i...

The Grandeur That Was RomePage Two Date: 2002The Early Republic, 509-133 B.C.: Foreign AffairsThe growth of Rome from a small city-state to the dominant power in theMediterranean world in less than 400 years (509-133 B.C.) is a remarkablesuccess story. Roman expansion was not deliberately planned; r...

VIKINGS Late in the 8th century AD strange ships began appearing in the bays along the coasts of Europe. Some of these ships were quite long for that era. They were strongly built of oak, and from 40 to 60 oarsmen sat on the rowers' benches. Each ship had a single mast with a square sail that was o...