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The French Wars of Religion. Against this backdrop of crisis, the first major religious wars of the period were in France. France was, next to Spain, one of the most powerful kingdoms in Europe. It was the most populous and had large armies. It had a dynamic economy and significant towns and cities. It also had a very weak monarchy under the ...
Until autumn of 1946, the troops of the 71st and 9th Infantry Division used the name Pfersee Kaserne. Later, the northeast area of the kaserne (Heeresnachrichten) went by the American name Patch Barracks. The respective order in writing of U.S. Headquarters Europe was dated September 25, 1946. On the same orders, the remaining kaserne area was ...
Chapter 12. Term. 1 / 41. Catherine de Medici. Click the card to flip 👆. Definition. 1 / 41. French wars of religion. Regent of France who tried to balance the power of the radical Catholics (Guise Family) and the Protestants (Bourbon Family).
The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...
Mar 1, 2007 · As a result, 1571, the year of the battle of Lepanto, the most important naval contest in human history, is not well known to Americans. October 7, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrates the victory at Lepanto, the battle that saved the Christian West from defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. That this military triumph is also a ...
The Kaserne was formally renamed Campbell Barracks on August 23, 1948 in memory of Staff Sergeant Charles L. Campbell, 14th Infantry Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism. On March 28, 1945, two days before the surrender of Heidelberg, Staff Sergeant Campbell led ...
The league gave the Swedes a forward base in southwest Germany from which to continue offensive operations against the Catholic League’s Imperial armies. The Protestants’ new leader was German noble Bernhard Saxe-Weimar, an aggressive but arrogant commander who had fought admirably under Gustavus.
