This required mobility and nimbleness; unfortunately the Russians had neither. Two Russian armies invaded German East Prussia in August 1914. Rennenkampf's First Army was to converge with the ...

This is emphatically demonstrated by the Ukrainians' adoption of an ancient Roman invention in their conflict against the Russian forces ... Alexander the Great's army used them to thwart Persian ...

A painting of the Mongols' victory against the Russian army on the Kalka River on display ... one of the greatest tragedies in history, when ancient Rus' was destroyed. On that occasion, and ...