Napoleon Bonaparte launched the most audacious campaign of his career. With the most enormous army ever assembled in Europe, ...

Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated; every attempt to negotiate failed. SOKHOLOV: The Russian army starts to concentrate ...

The remains of one of Napoleon's favourite generals have been returned to France, two years after they were discovered in western Russia. The one-legged skeleton of Charles-Étienne Gudin was ...

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 ...

Yet the Napoleon-wannabe Macron talks of defeating Russia. That is a fool’s errand likely to result in a broader and more destructive conflict. Instead, Washington and Brussels should ...

Napoleon’s Continental System is a semi-failure; Hitler’s New Order is a semi-failure. In both cases Russia refuses to fit into the system. This refusal is one of the factors impelling the two ...

Russia searches for Napoleon's gold Battle of Waterloo: Excavation unearths amputated limbs Single hair from Napoleon's head bought at auction A preliminary report concluded that the skeleton ...

To defeat Russia, Napoleon marched his soldiers deep into Poland. WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you always have to take the war to your adversaries and you have to defeat them ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well Poland, Germany, Italy and several other allied states. The campaign that ...