The Night Bivouac of Napoleon's Army during retreat from Russia in 1812, by Vasily Vereshchagin A snow-caked cluster of troops after the ruinous invasion of Russia. By the end of the French ...

A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in Russia. (Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first “patriotic war.”) Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II ...

After Napoleon's lost most of his army in Russia, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden united against him. Only Austria, ruled by his new wife's father, wavered. But they wouldn't remain neutral ...