Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated; every attempt to negotiate failed. SOKHOLOV: The Russian army starts to concentrate ...

To defeat Russia, Napoleon marched his soldiers deep into Poland. WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you always have to take the war to your adversaries and you have to defeat them ...

Yet the Napoleon-wannabe Macron talks of defeating Russia. That is a fool’s errand likely to result in a broader and more destructive conflict. Instead, Washington and Brussels should ...

"Don’t you know your own history? That Napoleon Bonaparte once set out to conquer Russia with 631,000 soldiers and returned home with a beaten army of 20,000!?" "Does President Macron now want ...

When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French—who had traveled hundreds of miles into Russia—were left ... and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged Sarah ...