Did the Teutonic and Hospitaller knights just go and claim enclaves like Rhodes and Malta until the Ottomans kicked them out over time? What about knightly orders in the Reconquista or up in the Baltics? Do any of these orders survive today?

I was doing some reading about the Battle of Brest in WWII during Operation Overlord and it became clear that taking port cities to supply the Allied armies was a key goal, though the article focused on the battles more than the logistics. Which ports handled the bulk of the supply traffic? How did the Allies move enough materiel through France to support such an enormous army? How successful were the Germans in destroying ports to prevent this?

If you need narrowing, I am interested in the Napoleonic era.

I understand the reason we remember it so much is because of the sheer amount of casualties, But i never quite understood what the significance of the battle really was. What was really at stake at Gettysburg, And would a Confederate victory have really changed much in the grand scheme of the war? And if there really wasn't much at stake, why is Gettysburg remembered more then say Shiloh Or Antietam?

I am just wondering how they would design buildings with their hieroglyphics? Did they have a number system? Did they use something else to plan their buildings?

This time of year I tend to see people trying to make a son-sun connection when talking about the origins of Christmas. This seems pretty ahistorical to me, since sun=son is an English similarity and doesn't work at all in, say, Latin (sol = filius?). However, as far as I can tell the two words are at least vaguely similar in Greek.

Which brings me to this two-part question: would the words for son and sun have sounded similar to Greeks 2000 years ago? And are there any works written in ancient/classical Greek that directly draw a connection between the words for son and sun (in any context)

Very confused by this since you would expect a former general to support the expansion of military strength.

How are street names like that named?

For instance, in the Book Thief, it's Schiller Strasse instead of Schillerstrasse. Is this correct?

Popular portrayals often show people of the middle ages as dirty and unconcerned with hygiene. But how true was this? Would a wealthy European noble in say, the high middle ages, have worn the same cloths several days in a row before it was noticeably dirty and sent to wash? Or would they have had a more modern sensibility of wearing an outfit only once, or mayyybe twice before it was washed again? Was it a faux pas for a noble to be seen wearing the same cloths twice in a row, or to two different events in a short period of time?

Afrocentrism tends to get an understandably bad rep, but what positive contributions did Afrocentrist scholars make towards our understanding of history?

I know that the color chartreuse was named after the liqueur, and the liqueur was named after the monastery, and the monastery was named after the mountain range.... but how did the mountain range get the name?

Please let me know if this isn't the correct sub Reddit to post this on! Thanks!

I'm writing an essay on the case of Plessy v. Ferguson and I have an idea of what I want to talk about. My problem is that no matter how much I research it I can't find anything to build a thesis off of that would have enough information.

I've been looking casually for evidence of Mensur style fencing or dueling blood sports in areas other than Northern/Eastern Europe. Is there an equivalent in Spain, Italy, France, or Britain?

Trying to set the menu for a combination Yule and Saturnalia party on the winter solstice. Does anyone have any historically accurate food or recipe suggestions? Thanks.

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Inquiring about what degree and type of training would have been provided to conscripted troops of any any region, area, or nations during this period.

As a follow up question what if any improvements would non binary systems offer over binary?

Was referred here from r/answers :D

There may be no real answer to this question, but was there any discussion amongst the Fathers as to what the National Legislature should be called?