Did legionaries serving under Caesar’s command dislike him so much that they insulted him during his own’s triumph?

The historian Suetonius told us that, during the triumph of Julius Caesar, something unexpected, even shocking, happened. Legionnaires passing...

Why did the Romans conquer Britannia and Gaul but not Germania?

The Roman Empire was huge. East Africa, Levant, Greece and others, all had been conquered by the mighty legions....

Corporal Sydney Bates, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroism displayed at Normandy, at the age of 23

Born on June 14, 1921 in Camberwell, London. At the start of the war, Bates worked in a carpentry...

Alfred Zech, a member of Deutsches Jungvolk, receiving the Iron Cross 2nd Class, at the age of 12

A native of Goldenau, Upper Silesia (now Złotniki, Opole Voivodeship, Poland), Zech was decorated with the Iron Cross for...

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