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.

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.

Born into a modest family in Corsica in 1769, he would survive the French Revolution and become one of the most influential military leaders in history. This is the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Illustration by Tim O’Brien "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815.

The French Empire’s renewed hopes to break British naval power were dashed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. But even as Napoleon abandoned hope of invading Britain, his Grand Army went on to ...

The brigade is set to have French light tanks, artillery, and missile systems. "Now they are able to fight, they are able to maneuver," a French colonel told the Associated Press.

Death from Artillery . The high casualties on Russian artillery is probably the most important metric. The war in Ukraine is all about artillery. What French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, himself an ...

The French wouldn’t return until a year later, but this delay was enough time for the Union to achieve key victories “before Napoleon could provide upgraded artillery and munitions to the ...

Napoleon was released in theaters on November 22, 2023, and the film chronicles the rise and fall of this French Emperor who etched his name in this history books forever during his life.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s career as a conqueror lasted a mere 22 years. It began in 1793, when, as a junior artillery officer, he masterminded the successful French attack on the British garrison ...

Napoleon understood something of Scotland, since by his side stood Jacques Étienne Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765-1840), the son of a Jacobite refugee who rose to be a Marshall of the French ...