Biography

Eugene Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot.

"The Aeneid" - the epic by the Roman poet Virgil is a direct reference to the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey".

For the sake of Chopin's health and life, as a cholera epidemic was spreading in Paris, his friends found an apartment in Chaillot for him.

The outbreak of the French Revolution did not immediately cause Napoleon to join it.

Direct current power plants came to a definitive end with Tesla's invention - the water turbine, which produces alternating current based on the energy of water flow in rivers.

He was fascinated by the appearance of Diego Velazquez.

Aristotle tutored several crown heads.

Bonaparte was a Catholic; his baptism took place in the cathedral of Ajaccio.

Garros was the first to shoot down an aircraft with a machine gun mounted on the fuselage.

On October 10, 1794, a battle took place near Maciejowice between Polish troops commanded by the head of the insurrection Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and Russian troops under General Fyodor Denisov.