Napoleon now found himself 500 miles from friendly territory, outnumbered, poorly supplied, and with winter approaching. What followed was one of the most harrowing and disastrous events in military ...

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was ...

carved from stone in the Schollenen Gorge - a monument to Russian soldiers who perished in the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. Cadets from the Moscow Military Music College performed the ...