An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent.

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. The legend is this: King Frederick ...

Posted: May 30, 2025 | Last updated: May 30, 2025 In one lightning-fast campaign, Napoleon crushed the once-feared Prussian army. Jena-Auerstedt wasn’t just a battle—it was a reckoning.

In 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to follow up his brilliant victories over Austria and Prussia with another decisive victory over the Russians in Poland. But amid freezing winter conditions, his ...

From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic Wars raged, as Britain, Prussia, Austria, and Russia all fought to hold back the fiery emperor of France. In 1814 it looked as though they had succeeded.

The loss emboldened Napoleon’s adversaries, including Sweden, Great Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia, which joined forces to fight against the emperor. By March 1814, the coalition had ...

Napoleon’s acquisitive fervor was exceeded only by Adolf Hitler’s, some 150 years later. But about 80 percent of the Napoleonic loot was returned, often in heralded ways.

The main thrust of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815 may have been to advance the First French Empire, but the undercard was all about military style.

An old hat has just sold at auction in France for more than 3 million dollars! But it’s not just any hat. It once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the most famous figures in European ...

Napoleon gathered an army of 600,000 men to invade Russia and work their way toward Moscow. Napoleon's army was the largest that Europe had ever seen. Of the 600,000 men, only half of them were ...