I always hear about advancing armies capturing equipment and pressing it into service. But I’ve also seen training footage from the era where they train soldiers on the shapes of different side’s vehicles. Even if you painted a big flag on a captured vehicle wouldn’t they still be subject to lots of friendly fire? Plus I imagine big markers like that wouldn’t work well with camouflage. Driving around the captured Panzer doesn’t sound like a fun job to me.

I've heard that up until the end of the 1600s, mercenaries were largely used in warfare. How and why did this change and where/how did the nations of Europe recruit men? Were most volunteers or were they pressed into service like sailors? Any sources on warfare during the late 1600s to early 1800s would be great as well. Anything pre-Napoleonic.

Most picture I see depicting the ancient city of Rome make it seem like just a mass of buildings and people- Did the city have anything like parks or public gardens? Were there trees lining the streets or hedges and flower beds outside buildings?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this. If there is a better place for this question, please direct me.

Thanks!

How recently were people aware of food allergies, like nuts or shell fish?

How common were they?

I'm trying to find out who ruled the city, but I figured this might be the best place to ask.

I'm studying abroad in Chile right now and taking a Chilean history course, and this week we've been covering the Great Depression and how much the country basically got screwed by its dependence on nitrate exports. My prof and textbook are pretty much saying that the crash here happened because the countries that Chile exported to were hit by the Depression before Chile and therefore had to close their markets, which meant that Chile then had no one to export to, and therefore their economy crashed as well.

However, it seems to me like the nitrate industry was going to decline no matter what because Chile's tariff on it was so high and other countries had already made chemical substitutes (lowering the demand), and that the Great Depression just made that decline happen even faster and possibly a bit sooner than it would have otherwise. Am I correct in any way about this? If I am, is it possible to estimate when this hypothetical decline would have taken place and how severely it would have affected Chile versus the actual decline?

Can any historians tell me anything more about this man? I've read basically everything on the net about him.

I can't find much information which seems credible.

Did Americans who supported the idea of Manifest Destiny during the 1800's name the idea "Manifest Destiny"? Or is the term an invention of later historians to organize American political thought?

In other words, what changed?

Alternate question, same for blacks getting the right.

Specifically, I'm thinking about someone going into a drug store to get a Coca Cola or any other soft drink. Would it be cold? How would refrigerating work? I can guess that soda fountains would be cold just by drawing from underground water pipes, but what about buying glass bottles?

I don't believe I've ever seen it on film or print earlier than a pre-Hays Code movie.

Also, to whom was it originally addressed? Assuming it was not initially started in drama.

I realise this may not be possible to answer but I'm going to ask it anyway.

I noticed that the 1983 Greater London Area War Risk Study (GLAWARS) in it look at preparing the capital for nuclear war looks at the possibility of conventional air attack.

That and the fact that in Protect and Survive they used the phrase "air attack" raises a question. Did the British Government had any official policy in the event of ww3 towards the possibility of conventional air bombing?

I realise that such events would be very limited and could be mixed into the beginnings of a limited nuclear war but does anyone have any information?

Why did the Mamluks, Ottomans or any other rulers that ruled over Egypt not reveal much about Ancient Egyptian history? Were they not interested, did they not have the tools for extensive research or maybe were they demotivated due to religious reasons? Thank you!

I am doing a presentation for my IB history of the Americas class about the German home front during WW1 and would like know more about the people and the economy and different perspectives of the war from inside Germany.