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From Sahagun’s Codex Florentino it is apparent that tequihuahqueh, Otontin, and `Shorn Ones’ alike were armed, equipped and fed at the expense of the state, and other sources indicate that they lived in warrior `houses’ (tequihuacacalli) – communal lodgings equivalent to barracks – in the palace precinct. The same is also true of the religious […]

A page from the Codex Mendoza depicting an Aztec warrior priest and Aztec priest rising through the ranks of their orders. Tenochtitlan was divided into four quarters or campans. Following its conquest by Tenochtitlan in 1473 the neighbouring Aztec city of Tlatilolco became a fifth `quarter’. Each quarter comprised several calpulli – wards or kin-groups […]

(c) National Army Museum; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation The Battle of Isandlwana (Charles Edwin Fripp) Africans often tried to compensate for the inadequacies of their muzzle-loaders by ramming in enormous charges of powder. Not only did this risk bursting the barrels, but the recoil made it difficult and dangerous to hold the gun […]

Irish Gallowglass warrior and Irish Kern, Marc Grunert The most prominent feature in the pretty town of Ballyshannon in south Donegal is a tall, ornate Victorian building which for very many decades has had the name of the proprietor prominently displayed across its frontage – Gallogley. It is an unusual surname but it is a […]