In the early 19th century, one of the founding fathers of modern war studies, the Prussian general and military historian ...

Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna ... But as 1806 drew to a close, Napoleon was still at war. Austria and Prussia had both surrendered, but the Russians — bloodied after ...

his attempted encirclement of General Bennigsen's Russian army near the East Prussian town of Eylau led, instead, to one of the most notorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in terrible ...

No one thinks the war can be won ... Bleucher’s greatest wish was to capture Napoleon and have him shot. ELTING: The Prussian troops idolize him. He's old, getting a little feeble especially ...

Napoleon swiftly won the ensuing War of the Third Coalition with his ... to defeat the Anglo-Allied army under Wellington and the Prussian Army under von Blücher before the Austrian and Russian ...

through the Austro-Prussian War (1866), the period in which several able monarchs were able to create an “Empire of the Danube” that was for a time – in the aftermath of the defeat of Napoleon – the ...