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In one minute, we follow Napoleon’s meteoric rise and the wars that reshaped Europe. Using Google Earth, we trace his victories from Austerlitz to Jena, the costly invasion of Russia, and his final ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although Waterloo marked the end of the Napoleonic wars, it can hardly be said to have caused their end. Waterloo has the odd distinction of being the only major battle to have been fought after ...

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 ...

In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, but now they faced a ...

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 ...

Sea defences built to protect Scotland during the Napoleonic wars have been unearthed by a team preparing to create 400 waterfront homes. The former military fortress, used to protect Edinburgh during ...