Napoleon's brilliant 1805 campaign culminates in victory at Austerlitz.
Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army was the biggest and bloodiest battle yet seen in European history, and ...
Nelson comes face to face with the French fleet of Napoleon in Egypt, for the ultimate naval face off. One of the greatest battles in history will ensue: the Battle of the Nile.
While the 2023 film covers the glimpses of his entire life, Waterloo focuses only on the 1815 battle that ended his reign. It stars Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as the ...
Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...
Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...
Mary, Queen Of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44. 1601: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, leads ...
Just down the road from the petite Airbnb in which I’m currently staying on the outskirts of Paris is the home of Alexander ...
Nationalism, as an ideology, played a critical role in the formation of modern nation-states. Emerging in the 19th century, ...
Eliot Cohen is a respected military historian. I have most of his books in my professional library and I was one of his ...
The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have engaged in fighting near al-Jili oil refinery, north of the capital Khartoum. The Sudanese army said it reached the vicinity of ...