Napoleon Bonaparte launched the most audacious campaign of his career. With the most enormous army ever assembled in Europe, ...
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 ...
WITH NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA—General de Caulaincourt—Morrow ($3.75). General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14 ...
Napoleon's favourite general has been formally identified after DNA tests on a one-legged skeleton found under a dance floor in western Russia. Analysis confirmed that the bones belonged to ...
After Napoleon's lost most of his army in Russia, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden united against him. Only Austria, ruled by his new wife's father, wavered. But they wouldn't remain neutral ...
A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II ...
which alongside museums contains a cemetery of senior military officers and Napoleon’s tomb. Kiev fails to hand over Soviet-era assets although Russia repaid Soviet debts — Putin Russian ...
Russia searches for Napoleon's gold Battle of Waterloo: Excavation unearths amputated limbs Single hair from Napoleon's head bought at auction A preliminary report concluded that the skeleton ...