Rabu, 08 November 2017

The Sack of Athens

As war progressed, the niceties of ‘conciliation’ were ignored. The men of Russia’s Don Cossack cavalry long enjoyed the reputation of being among the world’s most brutal and effective soldiers, and one of them, burly, bearded Ivan Vasilevich Turchininov, would become a brigadier general in the Union Army in 1862, after one of the most …

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