The Battle of Aspern-Essling, one of the most famous battles during the Napoleonic Wars, began on this day in 1809. It was the first major battle which Napoleon Bonaparte...
This day in 1941 marked the German invasion of the island of Crete during World War II, when the so-called “Fallschirmjäger” units were used. (“Fallsch...
On this day the army of the Third Reich invaded the Belgian capital Brussels. The Belgian government fled to Ostend – a small town on the coast, away from the advancing G...
The island had been under Genoese control for many centuries. On this day in 1768 the Republic of Genoa, an important maritime trading republic, handed the island of Cors...
Its cause was the extinction of the Spanish branch of the Habsburg family, after which the Austrian Habsburgs tried to take over Spain. The War of the Spanish Succession...
The famous General Heinz Guderian died on this day in 1954. He is famous for German military successes at the beginning of World War II. His strategy of rapid and deep pe...
On this day in 1940, the armoured troops of the German Wehrmacht penetrated into northern France. It is interesting to note that the Germans came to France from Belgium,...
The German senior military commander Felix Steiner died on this day in 1966. He held the rank of Obergruppenführer in the SS, as well as the rank of general in the Waffen...