History

26/08/22 | History

The Maritime Military Arsenal of Taranto turns 133 years old

The Maritime Military Arsenal of Taranto was inaugurated, in the presence of King Umberto I of Savoy, on 21 August 1889, to remedy the ever-increasing need for defense of the ...

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12/08/22 | History

Battle of mid-August, 1942

The history of the operation baptized by the British Pedestal, in Italy passed into history as the Battle of Mid-August, can be briefly summarized as one of the most ...

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26/07/22 | History

July 26, 1941 - Attack on the fortress of Malta

During the Second World War the island of Malta was considered a war target of primary importance due to its strategic position in the center of the Mediterranean and ...

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19/07/22 | History

Asylum ships were born 111 years ago

On the proposal of the Minister of the Navy, Pasquale Leonardi Cattolica, on 13 July 1911 the establishment of a Consortium between the Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of ...

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22/06/22 | History

The Italian colonial question and the diplomatic clash for control of the Mediterranean (1945-1951)

Among the main issues that arose at the table of the peace treaty between Italy and the Allied countries, there was the colonial question. Military operations of the Second ...

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11/06/22 | History

When the Italians met the Russian tanks. The first encounter in Serafimovich's loop (24 July-2 August 1942)

Where the Don draws a bend in the stretch between Satonski and Serafimovich (Russian Fed), the first battle of encounter between the Italian armir units and the Russian tanks took place ....

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23/04/22 | History

The Moskova 1812

Of all the battles fought by Napoleon, that of Borodino, or otherwise called by the French historiography of La Moskova, was certainly the bloodiest and fiercest ...

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29/03/22 | History

March 28-29, 1941 - The Battle of Cape Matapan

On the afternoon of March 28, 1941, upon returning from an action in the waters of Gaudo in the south of Crete, the Italian naval team was subjected to a series of air attacks from ...

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18/12/21 | History

18-19 December 1941: the Alexandria Company

In the night between 18 and 19 December 1941, 6 raiders of the Navy carried out the enterprise of ...

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16/12/21 | History

60 years ago the Luigi Rizzo frigate, the first ship of the Navy with a flight deck

The Luigi Rizzo frigate, the first ship to 'host' on board a ...

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27/11/21 | History

November 27, 1940: the battle of Capo Teulada

The battle, also known as Capo Spartivento, represents one of the first Italian responses to the "Taranto night" ...

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10/11/21 | History

1918: The Italian "western front"

When in March 1918, Lieutenant General Alberico Albricci received the order to leave for France, or rather for ...

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06/11/21 | History

November 6, 1881 - 2021: 140 years of history of the training of naval officers in the Naval Academy

140 years ago, on November 6, 1881, the Naval Academy was born, a training institute heir to the ancient traditions ...

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04/11/21 | History

The last days of El Alamein

In the first days of November 1942 the decisive attack of the British forces against the now disastrous ...

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31/10/21 | History

103 years ago, Navy men sank the battleship Viribus Unitis

On a moonless night, between October 31 and November 1, 1918, one of the most memorable feats of opera ...

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06/10/21 | History

Marconi class, the Italian nuclear submarine attempt

In the late 50s many nations both in Western Europe and beyond the Iron Curtain were conducting studies ...

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11/09/21 | History

The other 11 September

The 11th and 12th September 1683 takes place victoriously for the Euro-Christian forces, led above all by the king of ...

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07/09/21 | History

Bonaparte the Muslim

In 1797, Directory France had finally found its hero: General Bonaparte. Appointed commander ...

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19/08/21 | History

1991: The coup that (not) changed history

A quotation of uncertain attribution, but often overused in the most disparate historical contexts, states that ...

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19/08/21 | History

Soviet centrifuge: the characters born from the decline and collapse of the USSR

If you change the mission of the empire, the empire is lost. And if you don't even realize you are doing it, then not only will you lose it ...

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