History Skills

Senior high school History teacher. I run a website dedicated to helping students and teachers master the discipline of History: www.historyskills.com

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What made Alexander the Great’s army undefeatable?
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Alexander the Great was undefeated on the battlefield in his lifetime. However, it wasn’t just the general who did the fighting. His relentless conquests, from the rugged terrains of Macedonia to the vast stretches of Persia and India, were the direct result his army’s unmatched abilities and a unique combination of warrior types.
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The catastrophic massacre of the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin
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In early July 1187, the Crusader army suffered its worst defeat since their arrival in the Holy Land when Saladin destroyed its forces near the Horns of Hattin. The loss stripped the Crusaders of nearly all military power and left Jerusalem exposed to immediate attack. That single day reversed decades of Christian control and triggered an urgent response from Europe...
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Joseph Goebbels' insidious role in spreading Nazi propaganda
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Joseph Goebbels turned mass media into a weapon of control. Through manipulation of language and imagery that stirred powerful feelings, he spread antisemitism, glorified Hitler, and helped justify war and genocide. His propaganda was designed to intention mislead, and it would ultimately create a false reality in which millions placed their trust...
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Why did so many Britons, known as ‘Ten Pound Poms’, leave home for Australia?
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Between 1945 and 1972, more than one million British citizens boarded ocean liners and sailed to the other side of the world for just ten pounds. The Assisted Passage Migration Scheme, launched under the Chifley government by Australia’s first Minister for Immigration, Arthur Calwell, promised affordable housing and steady employment to a population still living under wartime rationing years after the fighting had ended...
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The devastating siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War
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General Nogi Maresuke's Third Army suffered over 16,000 casualties during a single week of infantry assaults at Port Arthur in August 1904, and the …
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Why did the ancient Egyptians cut off the hands of their enemies after a battle?
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Ahmose, son of Ebana, recorded on the walls of his rock-cut tomb at El Kab that he "carried off a hand" after fighting at close quarters near the Hyksos capital of Avaris around 1550 BCE. His inscription is one of the earliest known accounts of a convention that became standard within Egyptian military operations during the New Kingdom period (c. 1550–1069 BCE): the systematic severing of enemy right hands as verification of kills on the battlefield...
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Pheidippides and the real story behind the first marathon
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus recorded around 440 BC that an Athenian courier named Pheidippides covered approximately 240 kilometres of mountainous …
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From California to Down Under: The American miners of the Australian gold rush
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In the middle of the nineteenth century, discoveries of gold sparked waves of migration, which transformed frontier settlements into booming centres of activity. After they had exhausted the richest claims in California, many experienced American miners looked to the Pacific, sailed for the Australian colonies, and hoped to apply their knowledge and strike it rich once more...
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Ignatius of Loyola, the soldier who founded the Jesuits
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A French cannonball struck Iñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola in the legs during the siege of Pamplona on 20 May 1521, shattering his right shin and …
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Julius Caesar’s incredible victory over Pompey at Pharsalus against all odds
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In 48 BCE, Julius Caesar confronted Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus on the plains of Pharsalus in central Greece. The battle proved to be a crucial moment in the Roman Civil War, as Caesar, who commanded a smaller and weakened army, defeated a much larger force that drew strength from the Senate’s backing...
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The Battle of Lugdunum, one of Rome’s largest civil-war battles
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When Septimius Severus was thrown from his horse on 19 February 197 AD, he was nearly killed as tens of thousands of Roman soldiers fought and died …
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Why did Peter the Great execute his own son, Tsarevich Alexei?
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In June 1718, Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, the eldest son and heir apparent of Tsar Peter I of Russia, died in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg after receiving forty lashes of the knout, a metal-reinforced whip capable of breaking a man’s spine...