On Frederick Kagan’s The End of the Old Order: Napoleon & Europe, 1801-1805. What is rare are books like Frederick Kagan’s End of the Old Order. It is not the size, though the book is notable for ...

“Extraordinary times produced an extraordinary man,” Michael Broers writes in the third and final volume of his extraordinary biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, the emperor who modernized Europe by ...

June 18 marks the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s great defeat at Waterloo, the battle in today’s Belgium that ended his career. Waterloo has since become a byword for a final crushing defeat.

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Had Napoleon attacked Wellington’s British forces earlier and finished them off—which was possible due to his initially superior numbers—he could have faced off ...