@SecretFire79 I mean if you consider the reconquista one big ass crusade then ye sure but tbh it would probably only apply to the iberic peninsula. When the Ottoman became a big menace the crusades were over by a long time.
#SouthKorea 🇰🇷: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an "Emergency Martial Law" and parliament has been cordoned off.
Military in deployed armored vehicles in #Seoul including K30W 'Cheonho' anti-aircraft vehicle with two SNT Dynamics KKCB 30×170mm autocannons.
On this day in 1799, the French Revolution effectively ends as a bloodless coup d’état topples the the Republic's five-man ruling Directory and makes General Napoleon Bonaparte First Consul of France.
Was just casually reading about Fort Douamont
>germans capture it and turn it into ammo dump
>some german tries to cook coffee on flamethrower fuel next to all the ammo
>blows up half the fortress
>soot-blackened survivors that escape get mistaken for French colonials and shot at
On this day in 1957, the Soviets open a new front in the Cold War with the launch of history's first human-made satellite, Sputnik I. For 21 days the 184-pound, basket ball-sized orbiter transmits a constant radio signal back to Earth: "Beep... Beep... Beep!"
On this day in 1993, a standoff between Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Congress of People's Deputies turns deadly as army tanks roll into Moscow and open fire on the legislature. Nearly 200 are killed in hours of bloody street fighting.
On this day in 1944, German forces wipe out the last pockets of resistance in Warsaw after a 62-day uprising. The Nazi crackdown leaves as many as 200,000 Poles, most of them non-combatants, dead.
On this day in 52 BC, the Arverni chieftain Vercingetorix surrenders to Julius Caesar following the Gauls' defeat at Alesia. He'll be imprisoned for six years before being strangled in front of a mob in Rome
#Myanmar (#Burma) 🇲🇲: People's Defense Forces (#PDF) attacked and burned down Military Council office in #Myaing, #Pakokku.
Fighters used an AKM rifle, Wa-81 rifle, K-010 rifle, AR-15 rifles, M4-pattern carbines and Turkish AR-12 shotgun.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar