In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had ...
Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army ...
No disease man can ever spread will be as deadly as war. In the 21st century, an age in which even the most destitute on the ...
Far from being a mere European conflict, the Napoleonic wars had global significance, with each big powerplay reverberating far beyond the devastated continent’s rocky shores. France fought its ...
Gudin was a veteran of both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He attended the same military school as Napoleon, and is believed to have been one of the French emperor's favourite generals.
The French army has never fought this kind of war… It’s not at all the glorious war that they fought elsewhere. ELTING: At this point you begin to see a failure of Napoleon's judgment.
"We also agreed to work closely with key allies on achieving peace and developing effective security guarantees," Ukrainian ...
The graves of a group of French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars have been restored by a group of military history enthusiasts. The four men and one woman were buried at St John's Church in ...
Alarmed by France’s growing power ... But as 1806 drew to a close, Napoleon was still at war. Austria and Prussia had both surrendered, but the Russians — bloodied after Austerlitz ...
Not even the best military commander can win a trade war, however. Napoleon made the fatal mistake of adopting the protectionism of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a 17th-century French finance minister ...
This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...