One of the lasting legacies of the Anglo-Saxon people is their contribution to the scope of language – what we know today as Old English.
Forgotten feminist icons of the French military, the Vivandières, alternatively known as cantinières, was the French title for women attached to military units who sold wine to the troops and offered better cuisine on the battlefield than the army could offer. An often overlooked part of women's and
Angus Mcbride Unfortunately this is the end of my collection as of now of Angus Mcbride, but if I get more images I will do updates with those as well in the future. Well I guess its on to other ar…
Los Incas fueron una cultura que logró desarrollar una importante civilización hacia el siglo XII y que controló casi por completo el sur de la América prehispánica, dominando Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina y Colombia. Fueron finalmente dominados por los Españoles al frente de Francisco Pizarro.
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This study guide and infographic for Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.
Katie Bone is a 16-year-old rock climber who recently competed on "American Ninja Warrior." Learn how she's using her platform to inspire people with type 1 diabetes.
Reenactment of the Battle of Crysler’s Farm. The dismantling of the St. Lawrence Campaign during the War of 1812 was a two-step process. The first part was the Battle of Châteauguay in Lower …
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There’s a good reason the sight of a Viking longship struck fear in the hearts of coastal villagers: the Vikings were bad news for everyone. When they weren’t raiding, pillaging, and demanding tribute not to raid and pillage, Vikings even fought with each other. There are so many badass Vikings that it’s tough to narrow it down, but these ten who made their peers soil their breeches. 10. Eric Bloodaxe From age twelve through his teen years, Eric did what Vikings do and raided along the Baltic and European coasts. His father was the King of Norway and had plenty
William Celli used Facebook to post Islamophobic comments and a picture of a bomb
Les francais au Canada 1665-1762 - series of plates for the purchasing from the great master illustrator of the army of Louis XV. See his webpage here where there are more New France pictures from the man
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To animate the image scroll down to the first comment below or view original size. Details and History The Wikimedia Commons website offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This circa 1871 William Gunnison Chamberlain portrait of a Ute man has minimal bibliographic detail. Further information on the photographer's life and work can be found in Palmquist and Kailbourne's bibliographic dictionary "Pioneer Photographers of the Far West". Chamberlain first photographed the Ute people during an 1871 trip through the Rocky mountains. He continued working int he Denver area through the 1890s. His irreplaceable library of negatives was destroyed in an 1883 fire, along with any information not published on the extant stereoviews. The Ute people were wary of being photographed. Accounts of the time attribute this to worries of becoming sick, something we might attribute to interaction of an outsider with a relatively closed community. Often neglected is the political climate of the era. The long running Black Hawk War (1865-1872) with Mormon settlers gave Native Americans an immediate reason to be waryr lands in Utah were seized. Five years later conflicts in Colorado lead to the seizure of the gold-rich lands promised by treaty. Quick Links to related animated stereo images: Native American people. Ute people. Browse the 19th century or by decade: 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s. Browse the 20th century or by decade: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s. Copyright Advisory This item is indicated as being in the public domain on its Wikimedia page: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ute_Indians,_from_Robert_... . This image is also available with bibliographic notes from the New York Public Library's Digital Library under the digital ID digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?g92f046_017zf . Technical trivia Image manipulations and animated gif generation done with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
What did Mohawk families wear from 1800 - 1900? While they had their own traditional clothing, they readily added European pieces to their wardrobes as they made friends with settlers.
Ireland is a land of myths and legends, with epic tales from days gone by describing mysterious worlds, where nature and magic exist side by side.
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KEITH'S WARGAMING BLOG. This blog has been created to share my exploits in the hobby of wargaming. I game in the WW2, Seven Years War, Napoleonic and Ancient periods. The blog also contains a few details of my book 'Airborne Armour'. Please don't quit the site without leaving a comment, even if not related to a specific post. Most wargamers have something interesting to say about the hobby!
Acknowledging the real life Bruce Leroys & Sho'nuffs. Like their Negro League counterparts, these brothers played and never got paid. There is more to Black martial arts than the late great Jim Kelly; masters whose stories come right out of a comic book.
Of the great wars that the Roman Republic & its Legions fought, one of the most memorable and culturally importantly in the modern age is the revolt of Spartacus and his gladiators in 73-71 BC. Spartacus and his diverse rebel legion of slaves, prisoners-of-war, peasants, and former gladiators terrorized Southern Italy in a bloody revolt, eventually threatening the security and the pride of Rome itself. Known as the Gladiator War and also the Third Servile War in relation to the two other preceding major slave revolts in Sicily 135-132 BC and in 104-110 BC, the war which Spartacus brought to the doorstep of Rome itself was significant because not only was it fought on the Roman mainland, it threatened the existence (in theory) of the Roman Empire. Indeed one of the most sacred institutions of Roman culture up to this point in history of Rome, the gladiator, threatened to destroy its own creator and benefactor in one armed slave revolt. A 19th century depiction of the 'Death of Spartacus' in 71 BC Little is known about Spartacus except what several surviving Roman manuscripts and histories tell us; including Julius Caesar's account, which historians have pieced together. The issue being that the victors, the Romans, left behind the only recorded history. What we do know is that Spartacus was likely an auxiliary Thracian soldier from what is today Bulgaria and the Balkans, serving in the Roman army before he was outlawed and then enslaved. Popular history would have us believe that he was outright betrayed and enslaved by the Legions he once fought for, which may very well have been the scenario. At the time of his capture Spartacus was in his early 30’s and was to be sent to a ludus in Capua as a slave of the Roman Empire. The ludis, or ludi were the gladiator training schools or academies of ancient Rome. Savage horrible places they were basically fortified prisons or barracks which trained and toughened future gladiators for combat in the arena. In the ludis gladiators were essentially brutalized and taught how to use the various weapons and armaments of the gladiator; violently perfecting the multitude of combat styles like the Murmillones (Spartacus’ style), Retiarii (armed with a trident and a fish net turned ‘man-net’), Thraces (the murmillones main opponent, a nod to Spartacus' homelands), Hoplomachi (heavily armored), or Dimachaeri (two swords). Few survived training at the ludi and only the toughest and best fighters survived to fight in the arenas' of Rome. Murmillones in the Arena. Gladiators usually only fought man to man The Spartacus War began as savagely as it was fought and ended in April of 71 BC. Spartacus and his gladiator allies & brothers-in-arms Crixus and Onemaus (Celts, from continental Europe) led the initial revolt which was successful in overthrowing their masters. The Gladiators slaughtered their owners the House of Batiatus slaying perhaps the entire ludis including the the house patriarch Cnaeus Cornelius Lentulus who had owned Spartacus and the others slaves turned rebels for several years. In the spring and summer of 73 BC the gladiators broke out of Capua and began their guerilla war throughout Southern and Central Italy. The first major action of the Spartacus war was the surprise attack on Praetor Glaber atop Mount Vesuvius. His men allegedly climbed thick vines to surprise the Praetor's army, sending many into flight, slaughtering those who stayed behind including Praetor Glaber. The Sparticist rebels ransacked the camp; into the evening they celebrated their first major victory of the revolt. After raiding Campania and Lucania, Spartacus and his army pushed further north engaging small Roman forces, token resistance. Romes' battle hardened legions were fighting in major wars across the continent and the sea to the West. The Praetors of Rome must have been totally outraged, how dare these gladiators, bred and trained for the glory of Rome, for the pride of the nation, stage an uprising and murder Roman cohorts? Most certainly there was great alarm and fear that such a large host could assemble on the doorstep to Rome itself. By the spring-summer of 72, Spartacus had probably somewhere between 18,000-40,000 men in arms at this point. Map of the Spartacus War from Barry Strauss' Spartacus War (Simon & Schuster 2009) Spartacus' forces were dealt a major strike to morale in the same time frame however when Crixus, his most trusted officer was slain at the Battle of Mount Garganus. Shortly thereafter Spartacus marched back to Southern Italy, unable to find ships for transport however, Spartacus more than likely was forced then fight his way up towards Rome with hopes of crossing the Alps. Like Hannibal except in the opposite direction. Despite returning to and then fleeing the South yet again, the Roman legions eventually caught up with Spartacus and his diminishing rebel host in 71 BC. Feeding and supplying the rebels had been a monumental struggle for Spartacus and the gladiator high command (if it can be called such) and this factor alone doomed the revolt. With this understood, it did not matter if they attempted to futilely march on Rome or more realistically attempted to fight to freedom and retreat over the alps into the European continent of what is now today France or Germany. Crassus meanwhile most certainly focused his singular passion and focus on meeting the Spartacus host in the field and annihilating them in a decisive victory for his Legions and their cohorts of around 450 armed men each. The cultural differences between the different rebels under Spartacus including the Thracians, Celts, Gauls, and Romans also made the cohesion of his force difficult. The general desire for plunder, the inevitability of lawlessness, and waging wanton revenge against any and all Romans, was a major factor in Spartacus armies' lack of progress after their stunning early victories and must have played a part in the fall of the rebellion as well. Spartacus lost his life and the rebellion in which he and so many others had fought so valiantly and brutally in of April 71 BC. Little is known of this last battle in which Spartacus and his army faced certain death. The great gladiator-general and revolutionary fought on foot that fateful day, and allegedly decided to attempt an attack on Crassus surrounded by his personal Legionnaires in order to win a decisive victory. Spartacus knew most likely that he faced a technologically superior but outnumbered Roman Legion equipped with ballistics artillery, known as scorpions, and arguably the best infantry & cavalry weapons & tactics of that time. As the Battle in the valley of the Sele River [no confirmed location exists for the battle] raged on and the carnage of combat ensued Spartacus, apparently wounded by a spear died in the thick of fighting more than likely shedding Roman blood until he expired. Crassus probably watched comfortably atop his mount from a safe position as his own Legions cut through the slaves and rebel gladiators en route to a crushing Roman Imperial victory Death of Spartacus in battle at the Silarius River 71 BC Crassus attained his total revenge in the end. Justice for the cohorts and Roman citizens killed by the gladiators and slaves in the south following the escape from Capua in 73 BC. Spartacus avoided punishment, death by crucifixion through his death in battle. The surviving rebels, the comrades in arms who had fought so fiercely for their general did not however, though perhaps a few escaped, 10-15,000 of them were crucified along the Appian Way leading to Rome, the Empire’s temporary testament to what happened to rebellious property. Though the life and death of Spartacus remains covered in mystery, legend, and speculation, the historical truths & legacy of the Spartacus War is a testament to history of slavery and its despicable chains of manumission and degradation, and the desire for peoples everywhere to attain liberty and justice, whatever the cost may be. This is why Spartacus remains a symbol of freedom and revenge, in opposition to tyranny, he and his armies rise & downfall an ever-popular icon of Roman history, as well as an icon of warfare & military history in the ancient ages.
The poster had a good feeling about it. Maybe it was the bright yellows and reds and greens along with the brown-complexioned people encircling the proud image of an African American soldier neatly pressed for war. It was a circa 1918 poster for a film called "Our Colored Soldiers."
Experts have painstakingly transformed black and white images from around the world for a new book, Retrographic: History in Colour.
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