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Serguéi Leonídovich Márkov (en ruso: Серге́й Леони́дович Ма́рков; 19 de julio de 1878 - 25 de junio de 1918), general del Ejército ruso, se convirtió en uno de los fundadores del Ejército de Voluntarios contrarrevolucionario del Movimiento Blanco en el sur de Rusia durante la guerra civil rusa que estalló en 1917.
military school in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This page was last edited on 4 June 2024, at 16:44. All structured data from the main, Property, Lexeme, and EntitySchema namespaces is available under the Creative Commons CC0 License; text in the other namespaces is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
After graduating from the Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) realschule, he attended the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute before transferring in 1915 to the Constantine Artillery School in Petrograd, from which he graduated in 1916, receiving command of a battery, and later of a company.
Ieronim Petróvich Uborévich (en ruso: Иерони́м Петро́вич Уборе́вич; en lituano: Jeronimas Uborevičius) nació el 14 de enero de 1896 y fue ejecutado el 12 de junio de 1937, fue un militar soviético del Ejército Rojo durante la Guerra Civil Rusa, que alcanzó el rango de Comandante de Ejército de 1.º Rango ...
- Origins & Development
- Strategies
- The Ballista
- The Mangonel
- The Trebuchet
- The Cannon
Artillery machines were used to good effect throughout antiquity with the Romans reaching the peak of perfection and employing sophisticated and efficient missile launchers of great variety. Then the fall of the Roman Empirein the west and the fragmentation of Europe into smaller kingdoms meant that few rulers either needed or could afford to maint...
Artillery machines were used to pound walls and towers with huge boulders with the aim being to breach or collapse a section of the defence to allow foot soldiers to attack the besieged army inside. The most widely used devices operated using a single swinging arm, which is why they are often called beam-sling machines. Boulders were the most commo...
The ballista was a very large crossbow mounted on its own stand, a design which had been used to good effect by ancient Roman armies. The weapon fired thick wooden arrows or heavy iron bolts with great accuracy. Surviving iron bolt heads from Avignon in France and Hasenburg castle in Switzerland range from 100 to 170 grammes (3.5-6 oz). The bow mea...
Catapults or mangonels, as they are sometimes called (although the precise terminology for medieval artillery is confusing with no unanimous agreement - then and now - on what machine should carry which name), were based on ancient designs and widely used from the 11th century CE as European kingdoms came into increasing contact with the Byzantine ...
Trebuchets were a genuine medieval invention and were first seen in Italy in the 12th century CE and used more widely from the 13th century CE, when they are recorded in England, Germany, and France. Probably originating from the Middle East, the confused terminology employed by medieval chroniclers has prevented modern historians from piecing toge...
Gunpowder was probably invented in ancient China and presumably entered Europe via trade routes such as the Silk Road, but its potential as a means to propel a missile at great speed and distance was slow to be realised. Eventually, two brass cannons were being cast in Florence in 1326 CE and the Tower of London had its own cannons in 1338 CE. The ...
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After receiving his education in Kutaisi real school, he entered the Constantine Artillery School in St. Petersburg. After graduating from Constantine Artillery School in September 1908, he was conferred the rank of podporuchik and assigned to the 20th Turkestan artillery brigade.
En 1915 se graduó en el Cuerpo de Cadetes Suvórovsky de Varsovia, iniciándose a continuación en la Escuela de Artillería Constantín en Petrogrado . Entre 1918 y 1919 fue secretario del comité ejecutivo del consejo de obreros y campesinos del distrito de Novotorzhsky. A partir de 1919 sirvió en el Ejército Rojo.
