Under the Sun“ A monthly column of random, historical vignettes... The post Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, ...

of ‘killing time and fighting wars’. The grandson of a much decorated soldier and an eminent academic, Hennessey joined the army from Oxford. Officer training at Sandhurst proved to be an ordeal of ...

WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot about “bringing an end to the Russia-Ukraine war”, the State Department said on March 7.

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot about "bringing an end to the Russia-Ukraine war," the State ...

French prosecutors on Tuesday said they wanted a police officer to stand trial for the 2023 fatal shooting of teenager Nahel Merzouk at a traffic stop in the working-class suburbs north of Paris ...

Prosecutors have requested that a French police officer stands trial for murder after the deadly shooting of a teenager in 2023 that sparked violent protests across the country, the Nanterre ...

This latest set, the third in the collection, introduces new Late Napoleonic creations into the mix that can be 3D printed in 6mm but would also work all the way up to 15mm. The files will allow you ...

Documenting my progress on collecting and painting 15/18mm Napoleonic miniatures. This started with challenging myself to try my hand at painting miniatures at a smaller scale, and to look at a ...

Officers worked together to pull a 1,300-pound ... would likely be the most grueling and important game of “tug of war” of their lives to rescue a beloved pet from an icy pond in New York ...

On Oct. 29, 2020, Aouissaoui killed worshippers Nadine Vincent, 60, and Simone Barreto, a 44-year-old French-Brazilian woman, and church worker Vincent Loquès, 55. Police officers fired at him as ...