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In the chaos of the French Revolution, a young artillery officer took command and turned the tide at Toulon. This victory launched Napoleon’s rise.

An impressive fortress built upon a tiny island just 800 yards from a popular UK seaside town has transformed itself into a ...

Holdfast: Nations At War features 150-player battles, Napoleonic and WW1 settings, naval combat, and extensive class ...

The chance for annihilation came at Dienbienphu, when the French, thinking Giap still had no heavy artillery, dropped paratroops into a valley, hoping to draw Giap into combat.

Politicians and the public are convinced that spending more money on weaponry automatically raises an army’s effectiveness on the battlefield ...

Carl von Clausewitz’s On War remains one of the foundational texts on strategy. It’s quoted in war colleges, cited in white ...

"It was, in fact, the land of the ever-memorable Beast, the Napoleon Bonaparte of wolves. What a fate it had! It lived ten ...

Napoleon put off the battle until midday, in the hopes that it would allow the ground some time to dry out - essential for his heavy artillery and guns. This would, however, prove to be a fatal choice ...

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More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction. The collection sheds light on the man and the ...