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2 days ago · Roman Catholicism. Signature. Sigismund III Vasa ( Polish: Zygmunt III Waza, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Vaza; 20 June 1566 – 30 April 1632 N.S.) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa.
- 19 August 1587 – 30 April 1632
- Catherine Jagiellon
1 day ago · The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II. Following the German–Soviet non-aggression pact , Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on 17 September .
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2 days ago · World War II had begun. World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human ...
4 days ago · Battle of Austerlitz, (December 2, 1805), the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon ’s greatest victories. The battle took place at Austerlitz in Moravia (now Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic ).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a period of ...
- 18 May 1803 – 20 November 1815, (12 years, 5 months and 4 weeks)
4 days ago · Conclusion: Union Victory. BATTLE SUMMARY. Savannah, the objective of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" Campaign, was georgia's largest city and one of the South's main ports. To defend it, the Confederates, early in December, mustered a garrison of 10,000 Regulars and militia commanded by Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee.
3 days ago · On March 14, Pope's army discovered that New Madrid was deserted and moved in to occupy it. A Union naval flotilla, under the command of Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote, arrived on March 15, coming upstream from Island No. 10. The ironclad USS Carondelet, on the night of April 4, passed the Island No. 10 batteries and anchored off New Madrid.
