Putting the Great into 100 Greatest Battles
Fantastic artwork or not, we still had to justify every battle’s inclusion in the “100 greatest” list. This meant the battle had to tick the right boxes
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Fantastic artwork or not, we still had to justify every battle’s inclusion in the “100 greatest” list. This meant the battle had to tick the right boxes
Most Viking enthusiasts and re-enactors are familiar with the Varangian Guard, the Vikings who served as personal bodyguards for Byzantine emperors. What many don’t know is that the Varangians were also some of the empire’s most elite combat troops.
Having devastated and secured the main cities of the Russian principalities between 1237 and 1238, the Mongols rested before taking Kyiv in 1240.
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