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In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ...
During the last months of 1814, Napoleon grew bored playing at Emperor of Elba. He never took his eye off France, where the Allies had made the mistake of restoring an eager but weak Bourbon king ...
In the Ukraine war, it is artillery that has enabled tactically clumsy Russian infantry and armor to advance. Stalin once ...
This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...
Europe has once again become "winged" by Russia, which could lead the world to a catastrophe, since earlier world wars began ...
London/New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Pp. ix, 227. Illus., maps, diagr., append, notes, index. $39.95. ISBN: 1847251803. Neither pro- nor anti-Bonaparte, Riley ...
To play the Waterloo Interactive Battle Simulator, you must first choose whether to play as Napoleon (French side) or as Wellington (Allied side). The computer will play as your opponent. The game is ...
A talk by Roger Knight, former deputy museum curator at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, will detail Flamborough ...