Athanasios Diakos is one of the most prominent and tragic figures of the Greek War of Independence, famed for his last stand ...

Cannonballs and musket shells from the Prussian and Napoleonic periods, ceramics from later periods and objects from the World Wars were among the finds, archaeologists said. Researchers also ...

Master and Commander takes us back to the Napoleonic Wars ... military exploits and a closer look at the men behind the muskets. So, what really makes Master and Commander one of the best movies ...

Documenting my progress on collecting and painting 15/18mm Napoleonic miniatures. This started with challenging myself to try my hand at painting miniatures at a smaller scale, and to look at a ...

“Have [you] got a map yet?” he demanded of his young producer like a Napoleonic marshal. “I want the Western Hemisphere and eastern Europe.” The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, was in Saudi Arabia ...

The quote was not original — it has been attributed to the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. But the laws and the Constitution of the United States were crafted to prohibit Napoleon’s form ...

In the early 1800s, for example, Napoleon didn’t much appreciate opposing ... “magic” was entailed during a time of flintlock muskets as the primary arm. Lewis and Clark took a Girardoni ...

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with the advantage that its unfamiliarity prevents players from being unduly influenced by hindsight as they may be when refighting Napoleonic battles. Helion’s recently published The War of the Two ...