In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is n
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During the last stages of the Republic, Rome suffered its greatest military disaster since Hannibal’s invasion of Italy
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Seapower played a greater part in ancient empire building than is often appreciated. The Punic Wars, especially the firs
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Revered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nels
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Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this boo
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History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting te
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Why France, the major European continental victor in 1918, suffered total defeat in six weeks at the hands of the vanqui
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