With a double range compared to the Persians’ slingers, as they used lead projectiles instead of stones the size of a fist like their opponents, they would be used in...
Classical Antiquity
Investigating political realities and military strategies across centuries of
Antiquity
When the fleet arrived, the city’s garrison was absent, participating in festivities in the capital, Fustat. The inhabitants hastily abandoned the undefended city, which the daring Byzantines seized after minor...
The ability of Constantinople to withstand prolonged sieges and blockades was not solely due to the length, height, and thickness of the Theodosian Walls. The construction of the walls was...
The invasion of the Russian army into the Chechen capital during the First Chechen War (December 1994 – February 1995)
His reinforced fleet, trained in the gymnasia and equipped with Greek fire, set ablaze the Arab fleet, or as the chronicler Theophanes vividly states, “He set fire to the Arab...
In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese illuminated the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, marking the beginning of a military confrontation with a much larger adversary, the...
After their departure from the Boeotian city of Aulis, the Achaeans finally faced the formidable fortifications of the Trojans. Indeed, to overcome them, they had gathered the largest army up...
With a double range compared to the Persians’ slingers, as they used lead projectiles instead of stones the size of a fist like their opponents, they would be used in...
When the fleet arrived, the city’s garrison was absent, participating in festivities in the capital, Fustat. The inhabitants hastily abandoned the undefended city, which the daring Byzantines seized after minor...
The ability of Constantinople to withstand prolonged sieges and blockades was not solely due to the length, height, and thickness of the Theodosian Walls. The construction of the walls was...
The invasion of the Russian army into the Chechen capital during the First Chechen War (December 1994 – February 1995)
His reinforced fleet, trained in the gymnasia and equipped with Greek fire, set ablaze the Arab fleet, or as the chronicler Theophanes vividly states, “He set fire to the Arab...
In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese illuminated the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, marking the beginning of a military confrontation with a much larger adversary, the...
After their departure from the Boeotian city of Aulis, the Achaeans finally faced the formidable fortifications of the Trojans. Indeed, to overcome them, they had gathered the largest army up...