History of War – October 2019
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MANZIKERT BYZANTINE ARMENIA 26 AUGUST 1071 W hen Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes assembled the Imperial army in Anatolia s ...
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Great Bat tLeS took their name from founding Chieftain Seljuk ibn Duqaq, to become Sunni Muslims. The Seljuk march of conquest b ...
Manzikert fortress of Manzikert just north of Ahlat. It was clear at that point that the north shore of Lake Van had become a ke ...
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As for the Seljuks, they deployed for battle in their traditional crescent formation. Sultan Alp Arslan led the centre, and Turk ...
Operator’s Handbook A private venture (albeit based upon official French specifications), the Dewoitine D.520 first flew in Octo ...
DEWOITINE D.520 A pilot from the French Vichy Regime poses by the tail of D.520 STUB TAIL The position of the cockpit gave the a ...
OPERATOR’S HANDBOOK: DEWOITINE D.520 “TWO 7.5MM MAC34 TYPE 39 MACHINE GUNS WERE CARRIED IN EACH WING FED BY BELTS OF 675 ROUNDS” ...
DESIGN Metalskinnedapartfromtheaileronsand tailsurfaces,theD.520wasbuiltaround 12 framessupportedbyfourlongerons in thefuselage. ...
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