It was total confusion ... he could win the campaign. Waterloo could have been won, but the war would have been lost anyway. With all of Europe against him, Napoleon saw the futility of going ...
Napoleon went to Kaurakin, the Russian ambassador, and harshly questioned him. "What does this mean? What does Russia want from me? You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to ...
In October 1813 Napoleon ... Coalition armies could come to his aid. The four-day Battle of Leipzig would be the largest and bloodiest battle in European history before the First World War ...
When Napoleon Bonaparte began his 1812 campaign ... in its war with Russia. But as signaled recently by David Petraeus, the president and his generals are evaluating their own “coalition of ...