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French President Emmanuel Macron announces 6.5 billion euros in additional military spending over the next two years ...
Joel Reese, our local history librarian, telephoned me Wednesday morning, asking if I had heard that a French television crew was filming the exhumation of Peter Stuart Ney’s remains at ...
The grave of a notable soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo has been restored by volunteers. Sgt William Lawrence's posthumously published autobiography was one of the most famous first-hand ...
Why We’d Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo On the bicentennial of the most famous battle in world history, a distinguished historian looks at what could have been ...
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 ...
Belgian and Dutch officials, backed by Prussian and British troops, had arrived to reclaim art treasures plundered by the French during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
The main thrust of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815 may have been to advance the First French Empire, but the undercard was all about military style.
Tabletop wargames, in many ways, got their start recreating the Napoleonic wars. From this seed, a massive industry and Warhammer 40,000 was born. However, 40K and Napoleon might have another ...