During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, ...

Total war, Napoleonic war, arose out of the clash of between the French revolutionaries on one side and the French royalists and their allies among the old regime monarchies of Europe.

In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, but now they faced a ...

The return to France of the remains of Napoleonic General Charles-Etienne Gudin, who was killed in action near Smolensk in 1812, marks the latest chapter in a yearslong recovery project.

Researchers used the memoirs of Louis-Nicolas Davout, another French general of the Napoleonic era, who organised Gudin's funeral and described the location.

And before 1805, with French armies running rampant across Europe, the threat of a Napoleonic invasion of Britain was very real.

Yuhan Kim, a senior in Berkeley College, wrote and published a book in August on the military administrations and victories of Louis Suchet, a French Marshal from the Napoleonic wars.

Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today at the National Maritime Museum ...

The Peninsular War, 1808-1813 Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees.

Researchers used the memoirs of Louis-Nicolas Davout, another French general of the Napoleonic era, who organised Gudin's funeral and described the location.