Mayer drew his pistol and shot Peugeot. He managed to return fire with his own pistol but missed. Mayer, however, did not miss. He hit Peugeot fatally near the shoulder.

The perception that heavily armored knights, especially when fighting on foot, were cumbersome is entirely mistaken. Both historical references, eyewitness accounts, and the excellent work done by reenactment groups attest...

At the end of World War I, the Ottoman Empire found itself unable to maintain its statehood. France, one of the Allied powers, eyed, among other territories, the lands of...