This article analyses the records of weapons and protective equipment in the soldiers’ wills of the Crown Army, serving in the Vasa period (1587–1668). It presents information about the testators: their marital status, ...

An important factor in the view of the phenomenon of captivity in the Middle Ages was its mercantilisation. Prisoner of war had an important economic dimension, linked to the extraction of profits from ransoms. Ransom for ...

The article presents the issue of one of the war crimes, i.e. perfidy (during a war). In contrast the so-called deception (during a war) which is legal – the crime of perfidy is morally unacceptable and legally prohibited ...

The establishment of a naval armed force was one of the conditions for the independent existence of the Republic of Poland, which on 10 February 1920 testified to its enduring bond with the sea. Those who underlined that ...

For centuries, or perhaps millennia, the main cause of world hunger, apart from crop failure, has been armed conflicts. Many times, even in the event of local skirmishes, one way to gain an advantage on the battlefield was ...

The use of battle signs, especially in the form of banners, flags, pennants and other similar objects in the conduct of warfare has been evident in all armies for centuries. These objects have fulfilled a variety of tasks ...

The aim of the article is to present and analyze 3 passages of the work entitled War Tricks by Iulius Sextus Frontinus, in which wine appears as a tool of war. Wine, the drink well known to the ancients, which inflamed the ...

The article analyses the report of the ecumenical bilateral dialogue between Lutherans and Mennonites from 2010, entitled Healing Memories. Reconciling in Christ. This text is discussed as an example of a critical ...

Ludwik Opacki was born in 1786 into a petty gentry family in Volhynia and died in 1854 in Mykolaiv. Between 1827 and 1831 he worked as an architect for the Building Commission of the Black Sea Admiralty Department, and was ...