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Napoleon proved to be a capable military commander from a young age. From his actions during the Siege of Toulon to his ...

THIS SATURDAY is the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge ...

As foreshadowed by 19th century Napoleonic Wars, when the battles of Austerlitz (1805) and Borodino (1812) involved 158,000 and 250,000 troops, respectively. The Revolutionary War was premodern ...

It's one that President Trump might understand: a lust for new territory. "An incipient kind of manifest destiny" drove many in the rural South and what was then the American West, the territory ...

In the early 19th century, Holland Landing was a town of import. Holland Landing was founded by necessity. During the War of 1812, the American Navy cut British supplies lines to the west by seizing ...