Napoleon faced the combined might of the Sixth Coalition (Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden) near Leipzig, in what would prove ...

Experience the Napoleonic Wars through the eyes of a determined soldier in 'Sharpe', a series that blends history with ...

There are considerable risks for Ukraine if it chooses to fight on rather than seek a deal to end the war with Russia.

A total of more than 14,000 artifacts were unearthed, of which 6,300 were considered to be historically significant, ...

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

From the Napoleonic Wars in the early 1800s to World War II, the land of north-central Europe has seen battles large and small. Evidence of these conflicts is bountiful in Gdańsk, Poland ...

a venerable but little-known British bank stands ready to back the UK's Armed Forces – as it has done since the Napoleonic wars. Holt's Military Banking, based in Farnborough, Hampshire ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

A measured, relentless advance applies political pressure. The more destruction looms, the more intense the pressure.