Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army was the biggest and bloodiest battle yet seen in European history, and ...

Napoleon’s intervention in Spain and Portugal backfired spectacularly. The invasion sparked a mass revolt, led to France’s first major defeat at Bailén, and forced Napoleon into a grueling war. Here’s ...

The government in an act of Euro diplomacy is renaming its new nuclear submarine HMS Agincourt as HMS Achilles. In 1415 an ...