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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TASS/. The remains of Napoleon’s close friend General Charles-Etienne Gudin, killed during the Russian campaign of 1812, were delivered to Paris on Tuesday in the run-up to France’s national ...