Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1808 was meant to secure his empire, but instead, it sparked a brutal war. This miscalculation would haunt him until his final defeat.

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...

Napoleon went to Kaurakin, the Russian ambassador, and harshly questioned him. "What does this mean? What does Russia want from me? You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to ...

Russia will seek a peace deal in Ukraine that safeguards its own long-term security and will not retreat from the gains it ...

2. Stalin used War and Peace as a propaganda tool during WWII Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812 speaks so strongly to the Russian national psyche that when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union ...

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 ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticises Macron's war rhetoric, likening it to Napoleon and Hitler, amid rising ...