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Depuis 1927, le wagon qui a servi à la signature de l’armistice de 1918, se trouve dans la clairière de Rethondes.Il est devenu un musée et un lieu pour des cérémonies nationales. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out. Hébergé par Acast. Visi ...  Show more

Le 11 novembre 1918, l’armistice qui met fin aux combats de la première guerre mondiale, est signé dans un wagon, la voiture n° 2419D qui a été transformée pour servir de bureau au maréchal Foch. Ce wagon, auparavant utilisé pour transporter des passagers, devient donc un lieu hi ...  Show more

Defeat in the First World War dealt the Ottoman empire a terrible blow, but it wasn’t terminal. Ryan Gingeras tells Spencer Mizen that it was what happened next – between 1918 and 1922 – that condemned the empire to its fate. (Ad) Ryan Gingeras is the author of The Last Days of ...  Show more

Selim II leads the Ottomans. Marco Brigadin the Venetians. They will clash over the island of Cyprus. But who will be victorious, and who will be defeated (and flayed)? The two sides meet on this mediterranean island in the run-up to one of the greatest naval battles in history - ...  Show more

Dawn breaks on the 7th October 1571 over the Gulf of Patras. On this day, the Holy League will face down the Ottomans in one of the most pivotal battles in Ottoman history. Listen as William and Anita are once again joined by Barnaby Rogerson to discuss the Battle of Lepanto, its ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the event of which Voltaire, two hundred years later, said 'nothing was more well known'. In 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman leader, sent a great fleet west to lay siege to Malta and capture it for his empire. Victory would mean control ...  Show more