"Napoleon & The Queen of Prussia" is a historical novel representing one of the most fascinating and famous oppositions in the times of Napoleonic wars: the political battle between Napoleon ...

Alarmed by France’s growing power, the Prussians now challenged Napoleon, who made short work of them. "The idea that Prussia could take the field against me by herself," he said, "seems so ridiculous ...

Fresh from his great victory at Austerlitz, Napoleon's next campaign saw him take on Prussia in the autumn of 1806. Prussia's army had been feared throughout Europe since the days of Frederick the ...

Despite the title, the Prussian minister-president and the nephew of the first Napoleon have minor roles in abetting the war that would topple the emperor and unify Germany. The aging Napoleon III, ...

In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo said of the Battle of Waterloo that "an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World." Indeed, bad weather caused by ...

The Iron Cross is one of the most widely recognised military decorations throughout the world. The story behind its origins ...

On his way back from self-imposed exile in Paris, in 1844, Heinrich Heine caught a first glimpse of Prussian soldiers in Aachen, a city in the far west corner of Germany: With which they used to be ...

A united German nation was about to be created under the leadership of Prussia when the 1870 census for Idaho Territory’s Boise County revealed that Germany was made up of many small states. When ...

Alarmed by France’s growing power, the Prussians now challenged Napoleon, who made short work of them. "The idea that Prussia could take the field against me by herself," he said, "seems so ridiculous ...