by Aseem Gupta | Oct 13, 2024 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 14 MinutesIn the hills near Nagyvázsony in western Hungary, archaeologists have been searching for a man whose reputation survived far more successfully than his remains. Pál Kinizsi, a fifteenth-century commander celebrated for defeating Ottoman...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 2, 2024 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 28 MinutesStephen the Great ruled Moldavia for forty-seven years, from 1457 until his death in 1504. During those decades, he fought the kings of Hungary and Poland, defeated a large Ottoman army, survived an invasion led by Sultan Mehmed II, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 8, 2024 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 29 MinutesDuring the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Provisional Irish Republican Army maintained an internal security unit responsible for identifying informers within its ranks. Suspected traitors could be abducted, interrogated, tortured and...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 27, 2022 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 25 MinutesIn 1860, Ulysses S. Grant was an obscure former army officer working in his family’s leather-goods business in Illinois. He had struggled as a farmer, failed at several ventures, and sometimes lacked the money to support his growing...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 17, 2018 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 19 MinutesIn 1450, an Ottoman army arrived beneath the fortress of Krujë in the Albanian mountains. Its commander was Sultan Murad II, whose victories had already defeated major European coalitions and reinforced Ottoman power across the Balkans. Krujë...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 2, 2017 | Biography, Lives & Historical Figures
Reading Time: 26 MinutesIn May 1944, as Allied forces fought their way through the mountains of central Italy, an enormous brown bear was living among the soldiers of a Polish artillery supply company. According to the story that would make him famous, he watched the...
