The word "ideology" has become a fixture in American political rhetoric, invoked by leaders to cast opponents' beliefs as ...
But the Russian Empire had been resisting his efforts to cut off all trade with Britain. That summer, he ordered his army, some 600,000 strong, to invade Russia. It would prove to be a terrible ...
On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led a massive army of over 600,000 troops across the Niemen River in present-day Lithuania in what has become known as his Russian Campaign. His goal was to get ...
Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...
In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a million men. But when they were forced to retreat, harsh winter conditions, ...
Many stolen treasures from the Paris museum have never been recovered. The Sunday theft from the Louvre Museum of eight priceless pieces of jewelry belonging to Emperor Napoleon and his wife has ...
Memoires du General Rapp, Aide de Camp de Napoleon. London, 1823. Pontecoulant, Louis Gustave comte de. Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires du comte de Pontecoulant. 4 vols, Paris, 1861-1865.
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The ancient Egyptians believed that mummifying the king’s body enabled his ascension to the realm of the gods. According to this belief, the preserved body, known as the Ach — a luminous spirit — was ...
At 7:53 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 1975, a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter ascended from the rooftop of the United States embassy in downtown Saigon carrying ten Marine Security Guards toward the ...
Several dozen history buffs from across the state and as far as Albuquerque are getting ready to make some history in Julian this weekend. They’re cleaning their muskets and battle gear and polishing ...