1945 - The Japanese people hear their Emperor's voice for the first time, as a recorded message from Hirohito is played to the public, announcing the surrender of his forces to the Allies. The radio address will be remembered as the Gyokuon-hōsō, or the "Jewell Voice Broadcast".
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"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace". --Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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The Black Army (Hungarian: Fekete sereg, pronounced [ˈfɛkɛtɛ ˈʃɛrɛɡ]), "Black Legion" or "Regiment"—possibly named after their black armor panoply— is historiographicly the common name given to the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. The ancestor and core of this early standing mercenary army appeared in the era of his father (John Hunyadi) in the early 1440s. The idea of the professional standing mercenary army came from Matthias' juvenile readings about the life of Julius Caesar.[2]
Hungary's Black Army traditionally encompasses the years from 1458 to 1494.[1] The mercenary soldiers of other countries in the era were conscripted from the general population at times of crisis, and soldiers worked as bakers, farmers, brick-makers, etc. for most of the year. In contrast, the men of the Black Army fought as well-paid, full-time mercenaries and were purely devoted to the arts of warfare. It was a standing mercenary army that conquered parts of Austria, Vienna (1485) and parts of Moravia.
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