Interesting piece of Anglo-Saxon History. For all who are interested Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales recount this amazing period of history (from a fictional standpoint but still very historically accurate) including this amazing battle. The Last Kingdom TV series are closely based on the novels, so I recommend those also!
Category: History of the Middle-Ages
Correcting four myths about the history of the Crusades
Viking Vessels
THE VIKINGS IN IRELAND 795–1014 Part I
I am reading a short novel right now about the Vikings in Ireland so I found this fascinating. Few places suffered more at the hands of the Vikings than Ireland. For the best part of 200 years the Vikings systematically milked Ireland of its people to supply the slave trade, yet, for all their military…
Know Your History: Multicultural Vikings?
Multicultural Vikings The on-going agenda by so called “academics” on the left to manipulate the present by distorting the past needs to be confronted head on. Know Your History. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Military Organisation of the Holy Roman Empire
Know Your History, it’s Interesting Reading! Although firmly rooted and fairly well developed in the Rhineland, Franconia, Lorraine (the old Lotharingia) and Burgundy, feudalism in its widest sense was never as strong in Germany as in, say, France or England, and true knighthood and the customary granting of fiefs was unknown in Germany until…
Go Forward Suggestions
Enough with the Rallies and Cute 2A Memes, it’s now time to change things so shit like this does not happen again. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Know Your History: How the Ottomans Lost the Battle of Vienna in 1683
When you study the history of how that worthless pagan religion of islam was finally defeated and drove out of Europe for good, no other date is more important than 1683 and the Battle of Vienna. With Europe currently under yet another islamic invasion, it is INTEGRAL that Christians the world over learn from history…
Crusader Corner: 7 Myths of the Crusades
Spearheaded by the likes of Obama. Editor’s note: The following book review of Seven Myths of the Crusades by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt, eds., first appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of the Middle East Quarterly and was written by Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. As the editors make…
Military History: 10 Amazing Military Underdog Stories
Underdogs have a special place in the hearts of many, whether it’s the upstart Celtic Iceni tribe led by Boudicca revolting against the Romans or the ice-veined Spartans fighting in one of history’s greatest last stands against the Persians at Thermopylae. Either through superior tactics or more technologically advanced weaponry, the outnumbered often achieve some…