The Hundred Years' War is the name modern historians give to what was actually a series of related conflicts fought over a 116-year period between the Kingdom of England and France, beginning in 1337 and ending in 1453.
Includes:
The Battle of Crecy
The Battle of Poitiers
The Battle of White Mountain, November 8, 1620 ("Bílá hora" is White Mountain in Czech) was an early battle in the Thirty Years' War in which an army of 20,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 25,000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Karel Bonaventura Buquoy and of the Catholic League under Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly at C...
The Seven Years' War (1754 and 1756–1763) pitted Great Britain, Prussia, and Hanover against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony. Spain and Portugal were later drawn into the conflict, while a force from the neutral United Provinces of the Netherlands was attacked in India.
The Seven Years' War may be viewed as a continuation of the War of the Austrian Succession. During ...
The Castle Stromburg is an early medievial castle, probably erected in the 11th century and first mentioned in 1056. The castle was destroyed by Adalbert I., die archbishop of Mainz and built up again. A few times conquered in the Thirty Years' War finally destroyed in 1689 during the War of the Grand Alliance.
Renovated from 1977 till 1981 it is nowaday the hotel and gourmet res...
A medieval castle originally stood on the site of the baroque fortress: a Hilpold von Rothenberg was mentioned for the first time in 1254. Rothenberg was later owned by the burgraves of Nuremberg, followed by Emperor Karl IV, who as King of Bohemia thus acquired a new outpost. In 1401 King Ruprecht took the castle from King Wenceslas in Bohemia. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle was occu...
The Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle is located at Orschwiller, Alsace, France, in the Vosges mountains just West of Selestat. The castle is nestled at a strategic location on a high hill overlooking the Alsatian plain; as a result it was used by successive powers from the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War when it was abandoned. In 1900 it was restored under the direction of Emperor Wilhelm II. T...
A grid and series of image overlays of orthophotos for the City of Nanaimo, British Columbia. Primarily because Google Earth's coverage of our area is pitiful.
Warning: The overlays are large; depending upon your system, if you click on several overlays at once, you will likely crash Google Earth.
The Very Large Array Observatory, 130km southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It consists of 27 independent radio antennae, each 25m in diameter and 230t in weight. These dishes are on a y-shaped track, each arm is 21km long.
The Overlays are taken from NASA World Wind. Try this competition product by yourself. The resolution is mostly substantially worse than Google Earth and mo...
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