Epic History Napoleonic Wars Battle for France 1814 Posted: December 17, 2024 | Last updated: December 17, 2024 Following his defeat in the giant Battle of Leipzig (Oct 1813), Napoleon's final ...

In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, but now they faced a ...

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 ...

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.

The gate that goes nowhere is somehow a monument to the Napoleonic genius of the man who enabled the emancipation of the Jews ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firelock Games ' new Napoleonic warfare ruleset will be hitting Kickstarter tomorrow with Blood & Bayonets getting you stuck ...

This is a model of HMS Surprise, part of Nelson’s fleet, & featuring in the film Master & Commander, starring Russell Crowe.

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 ...

Conflict extended beyond Europe to include the colonies in what was known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery ...