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 ...

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

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 ...

However, the vital importance of oil to the evolution of human civilisation had to wait until after the Second World War when ...

Oxford academic Professor George Garnett claimed to have identified 93 depictions of male genitalia. But now another scholar ...

The relatives of his American-born parents immigrated from Kashubia in northern Poland, some in the 1830s, some during the Franco-Prussian War of ... Later, Napoleon sent it off to Paris for ...

Resistance on the part of the Prussian Junkers to any such scheme manifested itself ... Rhine basin as a military highway from the time of Caesar, through Charlemagne to Napoleon. As the Centre, the ...

Before his death in 2020, the conservative historian Paul Schroeder turned his attention to American empire. A lifetime spent ...

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 ...

While that might have been viewed as a wise choice on Napoleon’s part, the extra time allowed the Prussian Army to join the British ... that would lead to Napoleon’s demise in his eponymous wars.

The ideas sprang largely from Prussian studies of Napoleon's campaigns. Technological factors included ... a contest of materiel because of their weaker industrial base in World War I, the Germans ...