How did Napoleon's focus on saving his empire after Russia leave Spain vulnerable to Wellington’s forces? In 1813, as French ...

Mikaberidze tells a bigger story. Far from being a mere European conflict, the Napoleonic wars had global significance, with each big powerplay reverberating far beyond the devastated continent ...

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 ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

Napoleon went to Kaurakin, the Russian ambassador, and harshly questioned him. "What does this mean? What does Russia want from me? You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to ...

proclaiming a War of German Liberation. But the people of Bavaria, who had profited from Napoleon's earlier defeat of Austria, rallied once again around Napoleon as he assembled his troops for battle.

An aristocrat by birth, Gudin was a veteran of both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He attended the same military school as Napoleon Bonaparte, and is believed to have been one of ...

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 ...

On the other hand, in his analysis of Book II of the Gallic Wars, Napoleon totally misses the fact that Caesar’s near disaster against the Nervi and other Belgic tribes on the Sambre in 57 BC was due ...

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 ...

What happened when Napoleon faced the full force of the Sixth Coalition at Leipzig in October 1813? In the largest and ...