The Armchair Historian on MSN

Deadliest day of the Napoleonic Wars

Step onto the battlefield of Borodino, the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars. This video explores the clash between ...
Kotaku

Wars of Napoleon

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Wars of Napoleon AGEod goes back to the Napoleonic era and delivers the most detailed and comprehensive strategy game ever created about a time of struggle ...
Kotaku

Napoleon: Total War – Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Napoleon: Total War – Heroes of the Napoleonic Wars These units were previously available in the Imperial Edition of Napoleon. These exclusive elite units ...
Epic History on MSN

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Vitoria 1813

In May 1813, as Napoleon launches a desperate bid to save his empire following the disastrous defeat in Russia, the situation ...
The Atlantic

The Ghost of Napoleon: Thoughts After Reading 'War and Peace'

NOT long ago, as this is written, the London Sunday Graphic printed a striking cartoon showing Hitler and Göring saluting an army of men and a swarm of planes all moving eastward. Hitler is saying, ...
The National Interest

This Secret Weapon is How Napoleon Nearly Conquered Europe

Most historians agree that Napoleon was not a great military innovator. Instead, he won his battles by brilliantly combining the innovations of others, such as Marshal de Broglie’s system of military ...
The National Interest

These Mistakes Prevented Napoleon from Conquering the World

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The arrival of the Prussian force at Waterloo led to the tired French forces being decisively outnumbered and attacked on multiple sides. June 18 marks the ...
War on the Rocks

What Napoleon Can Teach Us About the South China Sea

In trying to understand America’s “great power competition” with China, observers have offered a range of historical analogies. Graham Allison invoked the “Thucydides Trap,” referring to Athens and ...
The American Conservative

Modern Wars Are Wars of Attrition

“Battles,” Carl Von Clausewitz said, “decide everything.” Yet the famed Prussian military theorist is wrong. Great battles and brilliant leaders can shape the course of events. But often it is ...
The Tufts Daily

‘Napoleon’ is an intricate, if confused, portrait of a legend and tyrant

“Napoleon” (2023) opens with an idea written in the shades of the French tricolor: “The people are driven by misery into revolution … and brought back to misery by revolution.” This cyclic statement ...
Boston Herald

Ridley Scott wages war spectacularly in ‘Napoleon’

Ridley Scott serves up dazzling spectacle in “Napoleon,” a historical drama about the French general played with comic and dramatic flair by Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix. It’s hard to top a ...