A “legendary” hat owned by Napoleon Bonaparte sold for a whopping ... the cockade on his hat on board the warship Inconstant on March 1, 1815, when he came in sight of the French coast at ...
Edward III ascends to the English throne after the abdication of Edward II. 1533: Henry VIII marries his second ...
As Napoleon starts his eastward march, he of course disguises his rapacity ... Only one road leads to Moscow. Now, we know that Napoleon, on the way to Moscow, fought the Russians at Borodino ...
Of men who were great without being good Napoleon ... to make a march in which he lost a great part of his enormous host, and after handling him very severely at Borodino, evacuated Moscow ...
On March 27, the World Russian People's Council ... which holds that Russia is the defender of Christendom. In this theology, Moscow is often seen as the "Third Rome," following the fall of ...
And the people listening to him were soon comparing him to Martin Luther, Mussolini, even Napoleon ... he could get them to march on Berlin and seize control of all democratic Germany.
Then, at midsummer 2012, will come the anniversary of Napoleon's greatest display of (ultimately ineffective) military might, the massing of half a million men to pursue a phantom victory in the East.
For most of its history, the United States has been blessed with a favorable strategic geography, primarily in the sense that ...
A new school textbook that likens Russia's war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was ...
This monthly report from Hudson’s Zineb Riboua examines Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East and Africa. Putin ...
On Friday, Jan. 24, the 52nd annual March for Life took place in Washington, D.C., with tens of thousands of pro-lifers gathering to march in defense of the unborn. The theme of the pro-life ...