The most recent political failure scholars and ideologues have seized upon is the French Army; the effects of its isolation from the main concerns (and territory) of the French nation during the ...

Whether it was the Teutonic Knights on frozen Lake Peipus in 1242 A.D., the French fighting the Russians during a blizzard at Eylau in 1807 ... the U.S. Army created the Alaskan Testing Expedition ...

The carnage in both battles was terrible: 70,000 French and Russian soldiers killed or wounded. Napoleon’s army was torn and ... On June 25, 1807, Alexander traveled to Tilsit on the western ...

Born in 1770 to a minor noble family, Davout was a junior officer in King Louis XVI’s army at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. He was an enthusiastic supporter of revolutionary ...

WASHINGTON — From colonial America to the recent war in Iraq, Army stories have captured movie ... portrays a fictional story set during the French and Indian War. Starring Daniel-Day Lewis ...

On July 11 Louis XVI ordered the army to disband it ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded ...

Conflict extended beyond Europe to include the colonies in what was known first as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery ...

In 1910 Charles Mangin published this book, La Force Noire, the black army. It’s basically a manifesto calling for the mass recruitment for Africans into the French army. Mangin didn’t just ...