Reenactors with Brigade Napolean depicted the life of a garrison of French troops towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars on ...

Napoleonic warships were not operated by small, elite crews. They required hundreds of men to sail, fight, repair, and ...

When my finger slipped, my heart sank. We were standing in two rows, our muskets pointing forward waiting for the signal. I could feel my cheeks flush with embarrassment the moment mine went off. “At ...

The Battle of Aspern, which took place in Austria during the Napoleonic Wars, claimed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, many of whom were buried directly on the battlefield to prevent the ...

Invading Russia is unlikely to go well because of the country’s huge strategic depth; armies can simply retreat east into Siberia and fight a war of attrition while winter defeats the invaders. This ...

Year 1807, at the end of the bloody battle of Eylau: the French soldier Jean Baptiste de Marbot wakes up, after several hours unconscious, covered in blood and on a cart, surrounded by corpses. He is ...

The grave of a notable soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo has been restored by volunteers. Sgt William Lawrence's posthumously published autobiography was one of the most famous first-hand ...

A mass grave in Russia dating to the 1812 invasion by Napoleon's Grande Armée has revealed that one soldier, who suffered a horrific facial wound during combat, may have survived for two months before ...

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...