The Ghana Army: A Concise Guide to its Centennial Regimental History, 1897-1999Smaldone, Joseph P.African Book Publishing Record
Most of the Persian army was wiped out, Cyrus himself died. Queen Tomyris filled a wineskin with human blood and searched the battlefied for Cyrus's corpse and when she found his body she said "...I warned you that I would quench your thirst for blood, and so I shall". Herodotus ...
Maarat was not as rich as the crusaders had hoped and they were still short of supplies and food as December progressed. Most of the soldiers and knights preferred to continue the march to Jerusalem, caring little for the political dispute between Bohemond and Raymond, and Raymond tried to bu...
The best books onThe Ghana, Mali and Songhai African Empires, recommended by Michael Gomez Read 1 Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century by E.W. Bovill Read 2 Ancient Ghana and Mali by Nehemiah Levtzion ...
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The population is almost exclusively African, as Ghana has no history of intensive European settlement. There is a small Lebanese community, whose members settled in the country as traders. Immigration from other African countries, notably Burkina Faso, Togo, Liberia, and Nigeria, is significant. ...
The term “Ghana” translates to “warrior” or “war chief.” The rulers of the original kingdom, whose Soninke name was Ouagadou Kaya Maghan (meaning “king of gold”), held another title denoting their leadership. Theories on Ghana’s origins often center on debates between ethnohistoric ...
Sri Ramanadha Ghanapati, a veda pundit of TTD has said that when he was still a student of Vedas seventy years ago, land under hundi was dug to raise the ground level of the temple. It was then that the Sri Chakra Yantram was found. The temple complex was modified many times for ...
“When I first heard about the Negroes sitting in at lunch counters down South,” he later recalled, “I thought they were just a bunch of publicity hounds. But one night when I saw those young kids on TV, getting back up on the lunch counter stools after being knocked off them, ...
But by the time she became queen in 1626, Portugal had broken its side of the deal. Nzinga refused to give in to the Portuguese without a fight. In 1627, she formed a temporary alliance with the Dutch—an enemy of the Portuguese—and led an army against them. Through her leadership, ...