The Odd Historian

During the 16th century, it could be said that the Spaniards truly ruled the waves. Once a backwater feudal kingdom,

“War is politics by other means”, as one Prussian general famously quipped. And just like politics, one should not be

The thirteenth century Mongol conquests connected much of Eurasia for the first time under the rule of one family. While

From extraordinary lives and gruesome deaths to humiliating defeat and heady victory, our list brings all the tragedy and victory