SUPPLEMENT: A house in Addiscombe became the final home for a much-travelled old soldier, who fought in Wellington’s armies ...

Retired professor Stephen L. Hardin has written two standard books of Texas history, one about the revolution, another about ...

German forces crushed four nations—including Britain’s best. This is how their infantry outmatched the Allies.

SANCHEZ MIRA, Cagayan — Incumbent mayor and retired Army general Abraham "Abe" Bagasin may have won the mayoralty race in this town in the May 12 elections and proclaimed winner the day after. However ...

In Napoleon, everything is different. Here, a musket is not an addition, but the main weapon on the battlefield. The infantry does not rush forward thoughtlessly, because this means getting under ...

the artillery became more prestigious than the infantry and cavalry, because it required educated officers who could understand mathematics (Napoleon began his career as a young artillery officer).

Infantry troops today typically carry machine ... Great commanders such as Napoleon achieved stunning victories because they massed their troops where the enemy was weak. If Pukhov is right ...

Napoleon had abdicated and was exiled to the ... shows one of the last French cavalry charges against the British infantry during the Battle of Waterloo. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Napoleon said it best ... which will always be its name, Infantry officers weren’t taught to retreat.

Naturally, they were also trained in infantry maneuvers. At certain times (1805–1806), some Dragoon regiments had no horses. In Napoleon Bonaparte’s mind, these Lancers were to not only ensure ...

Won by General Napoleon Bonaparte over the Mamelukes of Egypt on July ... reputed to be the best in the world, was crushed by the infantry of the French expeditionary force. This is the story of an ...