In 1808, Napoleon launched a war against Spain, sparking a savage conflict that lasted nearly six years, cost half a million lives, and helped to bring down his empire. We tell the story of this war ...

The four-day Battle of Leipzig would be the largest and bloodiest battle in European history before the First World War, and ...

The Music Institute of Chicago welcomes faculty pianist Matthew Hagle for “Phantoms of Countless Lost,” a program exploring ...

At just 14 he had been working as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, when he was captured by the French during the Napoleonic wars. He had an extraordinary tale to tell, and he carried the proof with ...

Britain’s brass bands are older than previously thought and were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars, a new study ...

Historians have increasingly stressed the impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on Britain and Ireland. Less attention, however, has been paid to the legacies of martial mobilization ...

Let the lion’s share of the national budget be directed toward socio-economic goods, but more resources should be allotted to national defense.” No ...

In July 2015, my Budapest dwelling parents suggested we meet in Vienna for a family vacation − they took the train, my ...

Britain’s brass bands are older than previously thought and were invented by soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars, a new study has found. The findings challenge the widely held belief that brass ...