Britain and Russia were notably enemies during the Crimean War (1853-1856). However, the two countries briefly clashed during ...

In 1190, during the Third Crusade, the Domus Hospitalis Sanctæ Mariæ Teutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum (Order of the Teutonic ...

The point is only that an extended peace brings its own problems: disunity, inequality, incompetence. They are infinitely ...

REIMS, France (AP) — When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end ... Through an iron-faced ...

Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to follow up his brilliant victories over Austria and Prussia with another decisive victory over the ...

War movies often show us a dramatized version of a historical battle or even a fictional war and depict the tragic and brutal effects that it has on living beings.

A specter is haunting America, but it is not — with apologies to Karl Marx — the specter of communism. It is, instead, the ...

When Cologne fell under Prussian rule following Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815 ... questioning whether Germany could win the war. None of these acts went unpunished — the posters were destroyed ...

John Heder, the actor who took the title role in the quirky 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, has given his endorsement to 1490 Doom, an upcoming indie wargame all about climbing castles in a medieval ...

Professor Charles Esdaile, the author of an excellent history of the Peninsular War, has now followed it up with an even better history of the Napoleonic Wars from the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens ...

Between Napoleon Bonaparte’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Europe enjoyed a period of relative calm. This long peace was thanks largely to the Concert of Europe, a ...