Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande Armée. He created a further 8 before his abdication. A few were aristocrats, but others were the sons of ...

General Andre Massena’s victory over a combined Russian ... than join the fight against Napoleon. The end of the Napoleonic ...

In 1810, Marshal Masséna's Napoleonic army invaded Portugal ... Valeria Sarmiento's epic frames this pivotal moment of the Peninsular War through a mosaic of human drama. As the battle looms ...

Historic and re-enactment groups from around the region gathered to commemorate the Civil War at the Robert Moses State Park in Massena last... Aug 02, 2016 — Historic and re-enactment groups ...

One of the largest Civil War reenactments in the region takes place at Robert Moses State Park in Massena this weekend. Music, cannon fire,... Aug 21, 2003 — One of the largest Civil War ...

DEUTSCH-WAGRAM, Austria —Just under the topsoil of the farm fields in this small town northeast of Vienna, there are traces of one of the biggest battles of the Napoleonic Wars. According to ...

“Buy to the sound of cannons and sell to the sound of trumpets,” was the purported quotation (which he probably did not utter) from Baron Nathan Rothschild during the Napoleonic wars. That’s ...

Using long-term figures for average earnings from the Bank of England it then concluded that wage growth over a decade has not been so negative since the height of the Napoleonic Wars in the early ...

A rare gold pocket watch bought by George III during the Napoleonic Wars is expected to fetch up to £1m at auction. The four-minute Tourbillon watch, made by the "genius" Abraham Louis Breguet ...

30-foot austere fort built in 1808 proves looks can be deceiving A TOWER built to defend Britain during the Napoleonic Wars has been converted into a luxury holiday property after being left ...