French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia.

The man accused of shooting and killing a security guard outside a Jefferson Township nightclub will undergo a mental ...

Napoleon managed to extricate himself after losing nineteen thousand men in casualties, among them Marshal Lannes; the Austrian army, however, had suffered even heavier casualties—more than ...

The field marshal received so many gifts from grateful ... William Allan’s Battle of Waterloo painting (1843) depicts Napoleon in the foreground on his white horse. Fryman interprets the ...

Napoleon evidently had administrative and business ... Berthier was one of the best of the marshals of that period. Forbin, my intimate friend, was his aide-de-camp, and told me many stories ...

MARSHAL NEY: “Sire, les Anglais are holding to leur positions comme des leeches. Is it zat we attack une fois encore?” napoleon: “Parbleu! Zey are an obstinate lot. What is passing at Quatre ...

When the French revolutionaries specified in the constitution of 1791 that a day of national celebration was to be held each ...

The Catholic-Royal revolt in the Vendée was crushed in literal rivers of blood. Napoleon’s reign ended in the slaughter and defeat of Waterloo. Marshal Pétain’s la France profonde degenerated in the ...

The creator of the sculpture was Jan Szczepkowski, who also created the exterior decorations of the Polish Sejm and the funeral mask of Marshal Józef Piłsudski ... Czesław and his uncle Ignacy served ...

No Napoleon and no Bismarck guides them ... but middle China was then dominated by famed “Scholar War Lord” Marshal Wu Pei-fu. Ahead of Chiang’s army marched a horde of Borodin-coached ...