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  • Today In History: 'Pride was Their Downfall': How Muslims Routed Christians at Nicopolis

    09/25/2020 7:53:34 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 4 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/25/2020 | Raymond Ibrahim
    Today in history, on September 25, 1396, a major military encounter with Islam that demonstrated just how disunited Christendom had become took place. In 1394, the Ottoman Turks "were doing great injury to Hungary," causing its young king, Sigismund, to appeal "to Christendom for assistance." That appeal came at an opportune time. The hitherto quarreling English and French had made peace in 1389, and a "crusade against the Turks furnished a desirable outlet for the noble instincts of the Western chivalry." Matters were further settled once "men of all kinds" — pilgrims, laymen, and clerics returning from the Holy Land...
  • Monument Offers Clues to Size of Cleopatra’s Unwieldy Ships

    04/01/2019 7:22:56 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 35 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | Thursday, March 28, 2019 | editors
    A new study of a monument built in Greece near the city of Nicopolis to commemorate Octavian’s victory over Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and her Roman lover, Mark Antony, in the Ionian Sea at the Battle of Actium has provided new information about Cleopatra’s fleet of warships, according to a report in The Independent. The monument once featured bronze battering rams set in well-fitted niches that had been taken from 35 of the 350 ships captured by Octavian during the battle. Recent excavation and measurement of those niches has allowed archaeologists to calculate the size of the timbers that held...