AUGUST 2, 216BC Hannibal Barca rode atop his horse just outside of the small southern Italian town of Cannae. Before him, in the fading afternoon light, Rome’s armies lay shattered on the Ap…| DECISIVE HISTORY
DECEMBER 2nd, 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte sat among his staff in his makeshift field quarters in the early hours of December 2nd, 1805. In the darkness of the night, dotted with the fires of hi…| DECISIVE HISTORY
Field marshal Friedrich Paulus sat in his makeshift headquarters in the basement of the Univermag department store in the heart of the Soviet industrial city of Stalingrad. In his eyes, an…| DECISIVE HISTORY
NOVEMBER 8, 1620 On a cool November afternoon, a sixty-one year-old general Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, stood on a low, treeless plateau just outside the bustling imperial city of Pra…| DECISIVE HISTORY
“Constantine’s decisive victory on the Tiber began the process that turned Rome into a Christian nation, and at the same time sewed the seeds of its eventual collapse.”| DECISIVE HISTORY
JANUARY 10, 49BC The sound of horses wading through the shallow waters of the rubicon river in northern Italy signalled a coming catastrophe. The river marked the northern border of Italy i…| DECISIVE HISTORY
A NOTE TO FUTURE CHANGES TO THE FORMAT OF THIS BLOG, AND ON THE DATE IN QUESTION Since I started writing this rather infrequent blog, I have been conflicted as to what format to use to convey my in…| DECISIVE HISTORY