The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it. ... Louis held power until 840, but he lacked skill as a statesman and soldier, and the empire fell to pieces.

Soldiers in the front were protected by a wall of large shields, ... Charlemagne’s successors built what came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. Between 962 and 1806, ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity sheds new light on how Roman soldiers maintained and repaired their ...

Archaeologists in the Netherlands unearthed the tomb of a Roman soldier believed to date back to the beginning of the Common Era in the town of Heerlen. The discovery was made during recent ...

At seven in the morning on May 20, 1631, 18,000 soldiers loyal to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II stormed the ancient German city of Magdeburg. The Protestant city was in rebellion against its ...