In 1809, with Napoleon and his best troops bogged down in Spain, Austria decided to try to get revenge for her humiliation at ...

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

We can attack the south and roll up the whole French army. Napoleon knew his man. The Tsar called a council of war, and argued for an immediate attack. Only Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov objected.

Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire.

and exhilarating battle sequences to produce one of the best films about the Napoleonic Wars ever made. Supported by an experienced cast, the film features a young Christopher Plummer as Napoleon ...

The graves of a group of French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars have been restored by a group of military history enthusiasts. The four men and one woman were buried at St John's Church in ...

Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation. Using German, French, British, ...

Conflict extended beyond Europe to include the colonies in what was known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery ...

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 ...