On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest advisors, Napoleon invaded Russia. Never in living memory had so large an army been assembled — Italians, Poles, German, French — more than ...

In less than six weeks, the French reached the Danube, catching the Austrian army of General Karl Mack by surprise. While his enemy wavered, Napoleon struck the decisive blow. ELTING: He comes ...

In a letter in which he vowed to blow up the Kremlin, Napoleon exposed his frustration at the campaign, with his army ravaged by disease, cold and hunger: "My cavalry is in tatters, a lot of ...

Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt ...

Napoleon was a brilliant military general ... One of his favourite portraits shows him leading his army across the Alps on a magnificent horse. He was actually riding a mule.

Napoleon Bonaparte launched the most audacious campaign of his career. With the most enormous army ever assembled in Europe, ...

The Roman historian Polybius wrote that Hannibal's army killed 70,000 Romans ... the Great] immensely," Napoleon once told a subordinate, according to his secretary, Bourrienne.

In his 2014 book, “Napoleon: A Life,” the historian Andrew ... European industry could not supply the shoes and clothes that the French army needed, for instance, and so British manufacturers ...

Just a year later, Napoleon secretly returned to France to stage a coup and seize power, leaving his savant squad and ... "The whole army, suddenly and with one accord, stood in amazement ...

This is the sixth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of President-elect ...