Napoleon now found himself 500 miles from friendly territory, outnumbered, poorly supplied, and with winter approaching. What followed was one of the most harrowing and disastrous events in military ...

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed on Thursday that French ... retreat skills," she said, hinting Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous retreat across the Berezina in 1812 ...

Three out of 12 species of snowdrops have already bloomed in the botanical garden of Moscow ... famously in 1812, when Napoleon’s army was ravaged by the extreme cold during its retreat from ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s legendary cold winters are not what they used to be. Early snowdrops, mild January temperatures and a lack of ice on rivers and lakes are all unwelcome signs of climate ...

Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...

France is preparing to hand Côte d'Ivoire back its only military base in the country in a ceremony on 20 February, further diminishing French influence in West Africa. Ivorian President Alassane ...

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As the final Amrit Snan draws to a close, the vast expanse of the Kumbh Mela, which for weeks had been a city of saints, devotees, and seekers, now echoes with chants of farewell. The air is thick ...