The Sacking of Constantinople
In the year 1204, the city of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was sacked by an army of Crusaders from Western...
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May 1, 20232 min read
The Siege of Zara
In 1198, Pope Innocent III called for a new Crusade to retake the Holy Land from the Muslims. Many European knights and nobles answered...
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The Battle of Marston Moor
The Battle of Marston Moor took place on July 2, 1644. Two years after the outbreak of civil war in England, King Charles I was on the...
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The Battle of Sedgemore
The Battle of Sedgemoor was the last decisive engagement between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth during the...
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The Battle of Trafalgar
This famous naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought west of Cape Trafalgar, Spain, between Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar...
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The Battle of Bannockburn
The Battle of Bannockburn took place on 23 and 24 June 1314 and was a victory of the army of Robert the Bruce over the army of King...
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The Battle of Rorke's Drift
On 22nd January 1879, eleven days after the British invaded the sovereign kingdom of KwaZulu in southern Africa, a Zulu force of some...
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The Amazing Story of the Vestal Virgins
The Vestal Virgins were an order of Priestesses that were at the centre of Rome’s religious community for over a thousand years. They...
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The Birth of the Knights Templar
In November 1095, Pope Urban the Second addressed a large gathering of French clergy and noblemen at the Council of Clermont in Auvergne,...
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The Final Resting Place of King Arthur
Off the coast of North Wales in the UK, lies a tiny island with an extraordinary story to tell. A story of pilgrimage throughout the ages...
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The Battle of Waterloo
On the18th June 1815, during the Napoleonic wars, a coalition of armies led by The Duke of Wellington faced the forces of Napoleon near...
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The Battle of Agincourt
In 1415, King Henry V of England resumed hostilities against the French in what would eventually become known as the 100-years war. Over...
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The Battle of Watling Street
Julius Caesar first came to Britain in 55BC but decided not to invade. For the following ninety-eight years, or so, the Empire traded...
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The Battle of Edington
For hundreds of years, Viking warriors had sailed across the sea to raid and settle along the coastline of England. By the middle of the...
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The Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is arguably the most defining battle in English history, and, as a result of the Norman victory, there...
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