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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. GSC Game World has today released new information on Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars for the PC. The sequel to Cossacks: European Wars, the game focuses ...

Extraordinary remastered photographs bring to life old soldiers in last remaining photos ULTRA rare photographs of veterans who formed part of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous Grande Armée have been ...

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 ...

Matrix Games has announced its upcoming strategy game Napoleonic Wars. The game, which is in joint development at Matrix and SPME Technologies, will let players assume control of one of several major ...