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The Napoleonic Wars in 1 Minute

In one minute, we follow Napoleon’s meteoric rise and the wars that reshaped Europe. Using Google Earth, we trace his victories from Austerlitz to Jena, the costly invasion of Russia, and his final ...
Pixelated Apollo guides gritty engagements in Napoleon Total War, recreates Napoleonic tactics with squares, skirmishers, and decisive artillery lanes.
The National Army Museum in London has recently identified the likely subject of a portrait of a black soldier in its ...
The Napoleonic wars were fought on a bigger scale than any conflict that had gone before. Though concentrated in Europe, their impact was global. They ...
War, an unfortunate constant throughout human history, has been accented by moments of profound transformation that have ...
Stretching from guerrilla warfare in the Algerian War to the Iraq War and beyond, Entertainment Weekly has compiled the best ...
One of the few Black soldiers to receive the Waterloo Medal in recognition of his service, Private Thomas James' overlooked story is now being told ...
However, new research by scientists working at the Institut Pasteur’s Microbial Paleogenomics Unit finds two previously undetected pathogens may have led to the beginning of the end of the Napoleonic ...
They say never meet your heroes, but Bernard Cornwell didn’t disappoint. Knowing I’m a superfan, the events team at ...
Described by the novelist James Robertson as “unrelentingly disturbing and utterly gripping”, this is the Booker shortlisted author’s ...
The filmmaker is promoting his ambitious adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece in Mexico, alongside his stars Oscar Isaac ...
At 11.45am, on Oct 21, 220 years ago, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ordered the most famous military message ever sent to be ...