Swiss membership in U.N. should not mar its neutrality
We hope the Swiss government will maintain a policy in regard to the United Nations that does not compromise its own neutrality. The neutrality policy of Switzerland, the landlocked European nation,...
View Article'Les Miz' at the 5th Avenue is a huge moving experience
Cathy Johnstone isn't afraid of the eight trailer trucks barreling her way. It's not the first time she's faced them. In fact, this is the sixth occasion that the 5th Avenue Theatre, where she is...
View ArticleNapoleon's Troops to Get Proper Burial
VILNIUS, Lithuania - The remains of some 3,000 soldiers who died during Napoleon Bonaparte's catastrophic invasion of Russia nearly two centuries ago will be laid to rest in a cemetery in Vilnius this...
View ArticleNapoleon's Troops Get Proper Burial
VILNIUS, Lithuania - Under French tricolor flags, the remains of 3,000 French soldiers who froze or starved to death two centuries ago during Napoleon's catastrophic invasion of Russia were laid to...
View ArticleHaiti Marks Napoleon Battle Bicentennial
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide urged Haitians to overcome economic bondage as they marked Tuesday's bicentennial of a decisive victory over Napoleon's troops that led to the...
View ArticleNapoleonic projects girding for combat 03/28/2004
With two Alexander the Great projects on the way, make room for competing Napoleon pics as well. Al Pacino () will play Monsieur Bonaparte this fall in "The Monster of Longwood," an adaptation of a...
View ArticleCossacks II: Napoleonic Wars (PC)
The emperor Napoleon's downfall was his overreaching ambitions, so it is ironic that Cossacks II: The Napoleonic Wars suffers from the complex named after France's infamous leader. Where the original...
View ArticleStreet Dogs: The English stock market hoax of 1814�
THE Napoleonic wars were a long and trying experience for the British. Consequently, when on February 21 1814 a man wearing the uniform of a British military officer showed up at an inn on the coast...
View ArticleFrance plans reform to cut role of powerful investigating judges
PARIS - France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French...
View ArticleA Master Of Sweet Deals
By EDUARDO KAPLAN In 1934, with the world in the throes of the Depression, an enterprising trader brought the New York sugar market to its knees, orchestrating what he later described as "the only...
View ArticleOld-world charm of stunning Slovenia
Slovenian Istria region is a sliver of several fishing villages and coastal resort towns wedged in between Italy to the north and Croatia’s Istrian peninsula to the south. First inhabited by the...
View ArticleBritish Life During the Napoleonic Wars (Yes, Including Jane Austen)
Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when the Duke of Wellington and a coalition of European allies finally sent Napoleon packing, ending two decades of armed conflict....
View Article200 soldiers died of battle wounds and typhus fleeing Russia in 1813
The skeletons (pictured) were found in the Frankfurt's western Roedelheim district and its thought the soldiers were buried in a hurry, with many succumbing to battle wounds and typhus.......
View ArticleThe surfer, the sailor and the horseman: prosperity is all about personal...
The tectonic plates of economic life rumble and shift. As ever, market watchers are obsessed by big themes — and the demand for predictions about them even though so many past predictions have turned...
View ArticleHigh life
On 17 November 1813, Marshal Ney, the bravest of the brave, had been the last to march out of Smolensk amid harrowing scenes. The hospital wards, the corridors and the stairs were full of the dead and...
View ArticleHave You Played… Mount and Blade: Warband — Napoleonic Wars?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time....
View ArticleDELINGPOLE: Rules for Righties — a War-Winning Manifesto for 2017
2016 was a great year for most of us – but just because we’ve gained the beachhead doesn’t mean we’re going to win the war. With Brexit and Donald Trump,...
View ArticleNapoleonic Wars-based Holdfast: Nations At War Announced
Holdfast: Nations At War�is definitely an ambitious choice for Anvil Game Studios’ first title. Essentially, it’s set in the Napoleonic Wars and features battles at land and sea, with dozens… The post...
View ArticleComment on Napoleonic Wars-based Holdfast: Nations At War Announced by...
Napoleonic Wars was an absolute blast, I never saw random people start so many coordinated actions on a battlefield, from walking in lines following a drummer to stopping to listen to the pretend...
View ArticleHundreds of places unfilled on British Army training courses as recruitment...
Figures seen by the Mirror highlight how the Tories have run down the Army since returning to power in 2010 ......
View ArticleArmed Forces recruitment crisis sees military "running to stand to still",...
The study will make uncomfortable reading in Whitehall and No 10 ......
View ArticleRevealed – your nickname, according to what part of Britain you live in
In Britain, there are hundreds of nicknames given to people from various parts of the country – some are worn like a badger of honour, others not so much ......
View ArticleLabour warns big banks they'll have to pay more tax if they want a say ...
Labour's Shadow Chancellor said that he wanted a "new start" between the party and the fiscal sector, but warned that it would not like all of his policies if Labour was in Government ......
View ArticleWoodrow Wilson’s internationalism versus Thomas Jefferson’s realism
Woodrow Wilson and Thomas Jefferson were two presidents who lived in different eras. Wilson was the head of an America that was beginning to exercise its economic and military might across the world,...
View ArticleCapita's outsourced Army recruitment 'failing on every measure' say Labour
Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith has vowed to bring the service back in house ......
View ArticleAmerican History for Truthdiggers: The Forgotten and Peculiar War of 1812
Editor’s note: The past is prologue. The stories we tell about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we think we are and help determine public policy. As our current president promises...
View ArticleBest Generals in the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleon Bonaparte is considered by many people to be the best military strategist of all time. However, he was not the only one who performed great feats during the Napoleonic Wars. Excepting...
View ArticleIn ‘El Sur,’ Victor Erice contemplates childhood
If, as the writer Charles Baudelaire asserted, “genius is childhood recalled at will,” then the Spanish director Victor Erice is a genius. In his 1983 film “El Sur,” he conveys the poignant story of...
View ArticlePuccini’s ‘Tosca’ is melodramatic and moving
Opera critics consider Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” which is now playing at the San Francisco Opera, to be the epitome of the verismo style. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were...
View ArticleAbout the Napoleonic bee:
The bee is industrious, tenacious, powerful - like women. It is the symbol of rebirth and rejuvenation, and symbolizes women's desire to be the best they can be. It is a classic symbol from ancient...
View ArticleHistory buffs debunk some popular myths - from Cleopatra's status to...
If you think that witches were burned at Salem and Sir Isaac Newton had an apple fall on his head, read on ......
View ArticleThe (sexist) Napoleonic Code
Under the direction of France’s most famous ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Napoleonic Code – the Code Napoléon – took force this week (March 21) in 1804. Napoleon’s goal was to reform the archaic and...
View ArticleNapoleonic discovery: Pieces of soldiers' uniforms from doomed invasion of...
Buttons from uniforms worn by soldiers in Napoleon’s army that invaded Russia have been uncovered in Lithuania. ......
View ArticleBig surprise hiding inside historic site
An uninspiring drab brick fort that was once made to keep Britain safe from Napoleon hides an incredible surprise in its interior. ......
View ArticleNapoleonic re-enactor found drunk in river with severed arms of his lover
MOSCOW -- Sunday was to have been the day of Oleg Sokolov's spectacular suicide, in full Napoleonic costume, in St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress across the Neva River from the Hermitage Museum....
View ArticleRussia's greatest Napoleonic re-enactor found drunk in a river with the...
MOSCOW — Sunday was to have been the day of Oleg Sokolov’s spectacular suicide, in full Napoleonic costume, in St. Petersburg’s Peter and Paul Fortress across the Neva River from the Hermitage Museum....
View ArticleBelgravia: Millionaire backdrop of new ITV drama was once a crime-ridden swamp
EXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes' new drama Belgravia follows the lives of wealthy families living in the wealthiest pocket of London - but it was a very different place before...
View ArticleUC Berkeley professors discuss crises, pandemics within artistic contexts
UC Berkeley professors discuss crises, pandemics within artistic contexts UC Berkeley professors discussed crises and compared famous works of art, literature and music to the COVID-19 pandemic at a...
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