In less than six weeks, the French reached the Danube, catching the Austrian army of General Karl Mack by surprise. While his enemy wavered, Napoleon struck the decisive blow. ELTING: He comes ...

In 1796, at the height of the Revolutionary Wars, Napoleon Bonaparte took command of French troops in Northern Italy. He was only 26 years old and had never commanded an army before. In a matter of ...

Napoleon would have to crush the massive Austrian army to bring him to the ... He wrote to Lannes' widow: "I [have lost] the most distinguished general in my army, my companion in arms for sixteen ...

On this special episode of Battle Lines, Roland Oliphant and guests tackle the late David Knowles’ favourite conversational ...

Napoleon's favourite general has been formally identified after DNA tests on a one-legged skeleton found under a dance floor in western Russia. Analysis confirmed that the bones belonged to ...

This is the sixth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the ...

Napoleon was a brilliant military general, who saved the French Revolution ... "We're welcomed as heroes because the French army rescued them from Austria. Once, after a battle, we walked down ...

This is the fifth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation. Using German, French, British, ...