/u/LordCommanderBlack's posts in /r/askhistorians
Both Alfred the Great and Henry the Fowler were saxon rulers who fought off viking raiders, and huns for Henry, using similar tactics of the construction of Burhs/Burgs and army reforms. Did they learn from each other and adopt each other's military advice?
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When Coronado marched through New Mexico with his 350 Spanish conquistadors and possibly 2000 Mexican Indian Allies in 1540, were his allies also provided with steel armor & weaponry, or european-like clothing?
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Some questions about the Confederate States Navy that operated from Europe outside of the Union Blockade?
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The King Philip's War of 1676 in the New England colonies saw the colonial militia muster an unprecedented force of men from its 65,000ish population, each man was required to arm himself, were these guns made in New England or England?
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The Congress of Vienna established a Habsburg lead Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia in northern Italy, What was the long term expectation for this new kingdom? And what dictated what territory would be a kingdom within the Austrian Empire?
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New Mexico around the Moreno Valley is dotted with now abandoned Gold & Copper mines that pulled millions of dollars out in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, Did the Colonial Spanish never populate these areas enough to discover the gold or was extraction impossible without industrial means?
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