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I would like to hear of any accounts of ancient battles of India as they are few and far between. I uave researched a lot on the net and found only a few battles. Heremthey are. Defeat of Assyrian Queen: She dressed up her camels as elephants and crossed the Indus, but the Indian king learned...

Once a public figure tweets something bad, the damage is done, no matter how quickly the tweet is deleted and who actually tweeted it. So why don't the powerful and resourceful enemies of Public Figure X hack into X's account to tweet something so bad that it would destroy X? Who would...

Third Battle of Panipat, 1761

Source:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=p7-ibcXzCi4C&q=aryan+india#v=onepage&q&f=false

When David van Nyendael, a merchant of the Dutch West India Company, visited the Kingdom of Benin in 1701, he found a state that was past its prime. The present condition of Agatton (also spelled Ughoton), the main trading village of Benin, was quite miserable due to the deleterious effects of...

An account of a clash between Pashtuns and Rajputs

I came across this ridiculous passage on Wikipedia in the article on Gulab Singh, the Dogra ruler, which has been used as reference by many Indians on online forums, .....Gulab Singh himself proceeded to Khyber Pakhtunwa region where Afghan tribesmen leader Painda Khan Afridi had raised...

or other pope armors? Julius II was known as a warrior pope ( by the way was he known as the warrior pope already in his time or is it some later addiction? ) and lead himself many battles against other italian states, therefore i assume he must have used a full plate armor. Do we have any...

For those interested, I have posted a paper on academai edu https://independent.academia.edu/StevenJames1 It's titled "225 BC: Polybius' Account of the Telamon Campaign Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show that Polybius’ levy for 225 BC and his numbers for the Roman army at Telamon...

The official account of the Battle was based on Wellingtons' report to the Earl of Bathurst of the 19th June 1815 and Wellingtons Memorandum of 24th September 1842.How accurate are these accounts as they have been questioned as genuine?

"Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R.A. T.D." is the only book published that recounts the events that led up to the British Army’s uncovering of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp and its 60,000 prisoners, and their subsequent...

Pardon me if there is a (recent) thread discussing this topic... but how much credibility do you put on Tacitus' mention of "Christus" (no first name is mentioned, though the Romans, as we know, were favourable to referring to famed individuals through their cognomen). Foremost, what source...

Newly-Found Document Holds Eyewitness Account of Jesus Performing Miracle I myself am still skeptical

I'm posting this because I've come across a few posts where the author said he or she couldn't look at a source for lack of access to Jstor. I'm not sure how well-known it is but Jstor will give an individual free access to much of their database. Granted, it's mostly restricted to older...

Let's suppose you're a top level sportsman, and you're picked to represent your country. The fixture will, however, clash with a more lucrative one for you personally, maybe with your club, team, or it's a tournament if you're an individual sportsman. Which one would you personally choose? And...

I just had a discussion with a friend of mine regarding Caesar's assassination. He claimed that we don't really know for certain how the event happened, which I thought was wrong since we know so many details about it (the day, the location, very specific details regarding a senator questioning...

Is it ok if I open a new account? I had some problems with the e-mail I registered this profile with and also the password was the same for the e-mail and the forum account and for the many other applications I registered with that e-mail. Right now I logged in because browser remembers the...

I need to write an essay on this and was wondering if anyone could bullet point the key events that allowed the liberal government to grow? I've done research on certain events like the French Revolution and have also purchased some books on the rise of liberalism in Europe, but they tend to...

Here is a moment by moment account of the events in 1483. Does anyone disagree with any of this and if so could you provide some source evidence? Just doing this specific account of the events surrounding 1483, has converted me that Richard did order the killing of the Princes in the Tower. I've...

It is a manuscript that I inherited- called by the family the Gamsby Manuscript. It is an account of a woman- Dorothea Gamsby (an ancestor) of her life in the turbulent times as an immigrant during the American Revolution. I have written out the cursive (editing it's many idiosyncrasies) . I...