In 1815, the leaders of Europe gathered in the Habsburg capital to reestablish peace after the French defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and the second abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. Austria, along ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. But after winning a costly victory at Borodino and occupying Moscow, Napoleon's invitation to Russian Emperor Alexander to ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of Russia ...

St Neots Players and the Friends of St Neots Museum present the world premiere of a play about the 1812 murder of a British Prime Minister.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Napoleonic legacy is being used in complex and contradictory ways concerning dictatorship and war.

Theatre UAB is up for the challenge of this big, deceptively complex production, an electropop opera inspired by genres of ...

Research finds brass bands were not all linked to industry - veterans of the Napoleonic Wars played an important role.

This story took place in the Fall of 1812, during the chaotic retreat of the ‘Great Army’ from Russia. Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, the son of Napoleon's first wife Josephine, commanded the ...

The British Army is set to have fewer than 70,000 trained soldiers next year as troop numbers continue to fall. The numbers, set against rising global tensions and war in Europe, pose serious ...

6. Viktor Mazurovsky. The Case of Cossack Platov near Mir, July 9, 1812. Battle of Borodino Museum-panorama At the very beginning of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the Cossacks inflicted a heavy ...

Back then, the British Army had around 40,000 soldiers but was rapidly increased to fight the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Answering a question from Labour MP Emma Lewell-Buck ...