On September 7, 1812, over 250,000 men clashed near Moscow in a single day of bloodshed. The result? A brutal “victory” that ...

For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.

Jay Newton-Small wonders why there isn’t more interest in commemorating the War of 1812: But even though the ... still embroiled in its conflict with Napoleon. The U.S. “won” only in the ...

Desperate to defeat Napoleon, Britain restricted U.S ... s identity is at stake,” says Wood, who calls 1812 “an ideological war.” It was also extremely unpopular. The vote to declare ...

You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to finish one." On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest advisors, Napoleon invaded Russia. Never in living memory had so ...

In 1812 French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops ... the most decisive clashes of the Peninsular War. Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 ...

An epic, four part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" detailing the life of several Russian aristocratic families surrounding the 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II ...