Although initially recommended for naval service because of his knack for mathematics, Napoleon was soon placed on track for a career in the prestigious artillery branch of the French army.

The deployment of South African troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission was initially framed as a commitment to regional ...

After the Napoleonic Wars, a French artillery officer named Charles Barbier invented ‘night writing’, which used raised dots on cardboard to send written messages on battlefields by night. It was this ...

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There is probably no race of savages that we know of which does not assign a high place to this most needful virtue, while the most mawkish French novel ... to our flying artillery and the ...

He bolsters his argument by citing a paper written by three artillery colonels expressing ... weapons in the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars (particularly in Spain and Russia), the ...

It had been biding its time, as Napoleon had warned Lord Amherst 200 years earlier ... in Arunachal Pradesh were quickly double-laned and reinforced to take tanks and artillery. In short, Manmohan and ...

The French Army received its first Griffon Mortier Embarqué Pour l'Appui au Contact (MEPAC) 6×6 self-propelled 120 mm mortar ...

Reports say the unit fielded German-made Leopard tanks and French artillery. But the brigade lieutenant who spoke to RFE/RL on condition of anonymity said some equipment they were provided was ...

Russia has lost 180 artillery systems in the past three days, according to figures provided by Ukraine's military. The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces posts figures on Russia's troop and ...

They set up an artillery position at a local sawmill and ... was so heavily contaminated after the First World War that the French government deemed it uninhabitable. A cruel irony is that some ...