It was Nietzsche who wrote that the French Revolution was a text buried and lost under the accumulated decades of interpretations. One could say the same of Napoleon Bonaparte, arguably... Here’s What ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica in 1769, shortly after France purchased it from the Italian state of Genoa. Before his death in 1821, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the military to become ...

The Duke of Wellington famously described his first and last battlefield confrontation with Napoleon as “the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” He was referring, of course, to the Battle of ...

Invading Russia is unlikely to go well because of the country’s huge strategic depth; armies can simply retreat east into Siberia and fight a war of attrition while winter defeats the invaders. This ...

Picture this: you’re at home, minding your own business, when two enormous armies roll into town and start hacking and shooting each other to pieces. When the smoke clears, the battlefield by your ...

Reenactors marked the 207th anniversary of the Battle of Berezina, a major clash during the Napoleonic Wars, near Minsk in Belarus in late November. During the battle, Napoleon's forces faced ...

Year 1807, at the end of the bloody battle of Eylau: the French soldier Jean Baptiste de Marbot wakes up, after several hours unconscious, covered in blood and on a cart, surrounded by corpses. He is ...

I like historical strategy games and every once in a great while I get the urge to break out of the more traditional eras. You know, play something that focuses on a time period between the Crusades ...