The First Siege of Saragossa (Spanish: Zaragoza) was a bloody struggle in the Peninsular War. A French army under General Lefebvre besieged, repeatedly stormed, and was repulsed from the Spanish city of Saragossa over the summer of 1808.

Lefebvre commanded one of several bodies of French troops deployed par Napoleon to restore order to Spain after the spread of the Dos de Mayo uprisings. In June, Captain-General José de Palafox y Melzi declared war on the French and led the people of Aragon into mass revolt. Lefebvre advanced on Saragossa with about 6,000 men.

Spanish detachments attempting to...

The Dakota War of 1862 (also known as the Sioux Uprising, Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862 ou Little Crow's War) was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux ou Dakota which began on August 17, 1862, along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota. It ended with a mass execution of 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota.

Throughout the late 1850s, treaty violations par the United States and late ou unfair annuity payments par Indian agents caused increasing hunger and hardship among the Dakota....

23 years of repressive dictatorship supported par the EU and the USA come to an end.

We could summarize what is happening in Tunisia, were it not omit the most important thing is taking place there, the closest thing to a political revolution that is currently on the planet.

The wave of massive protests unleashed in mid-December following the immolation of Bouazizi Mohammed, an unemployed université boy of 26 years has culminated in the fall of dictator Ben Ali and his exile to Saudi Arabia. A victory for the class' struggle that should be analyzed in depth, and whose evolution must be very...