Napoleon considered the Iberian Peninsula another world — with people ... It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated ...

The Peninsular War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last European ports open to British trade ...

SEVENTY-NINE YEARS ago the end was in sight for World War 2. Germany unconditionally surrendered on May 7, 1945. Japan unconditionally surrendered on September 2, 1945.

English author Bernard Cornwell presents the history of the Peninsular War, the setting for his Sharpe novel series. It was fought for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars.

I don’t get my news from Al Jazeera or the Palestine Chronicle. Palestinians, I mean all Palestinians, except children, are complicit in this war. Don’t try to tell me that you didn’t know there were ...

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 ...