To celebrate the 25th Total War anniversary and a slew of new game announcements, here are the best Total War games that you ...

There are dates that do not merely mark time — they expose it. 4 December 1852 is one of them. On that winter day, Paris glittered. The boulevards glowed with festive lights, salons were filled with ...

December 2nd holds a unique place in history, marked by events that have shaped the course of nations and influenced global ...

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge ...

Napoleon’s defeat in Russia was a turning point in history, leading to the decline of his empire. This study shows that ...

The Battle of Berezina in 1812 was a significant moment in Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's aborted campaign against Tsarist ...

Once-great European powers can’t even dictate the end of a war in a European country whose fate they deem crucial to their ...

For as long as humans have lived in settled communities, some groups have sought to assert dominance over others, and through history the biggest empires grew to cover millions of square miles. But ...

“Battles,’ said Voltaire, ‘are not lost by [numbers] of killed and wounded, but by the effect…on the survivers.’ The same holds now of the principle of freedom.” The United States Magazine & ...

Furniture styles before the 20th century are often named after the rulers or governments of the time. Here in the United States, we have furniture periods like William and Mary, Federal, and Victorian ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...