It was Nietzsche who wrote that the French Revolution was a text buried and lost under the accumulated decades of interpretations. One could say the same of Napoleon Bonaparte, arguably ...

In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had inflicted several heavy defeats on Spanish field armies, but now they faced a ...

The restored portrait of Private Thomas James being installed at the National Army Museum. Courtesy of the National Army Museum The Napoleonic wars were fought on a bigger scale than any conflict that ...