Napoleon's Final Exile Emboldened by the defeat, Austria, Prussia and Sweden re-joined Russia and Great Britain in the fight against Napoleon. Although the French emperor was able to raise another massive army, this time it was short on both cavalry and experience. Napoleon won some initial ...
Why did Louis VII of France fight? Why was the Crimean War significant during the French Revolution? Why did Napoleon start the Napoloeonic Wars? Why did France win the Hundred Years' War? Why did the Austrian (Hapsburg) Empire fight wars against the Ottoman Empire during the 16th through ...
Why did Napoleon lose many soldiers during the Peninsular War? Why did the Brothers' War happen? Why is the Holocaust the most well-known genocide? Why is the Battle of Gallipoli important? Why did the French Revolution devolve into the Napoleonic Wars?
He expected the conquest of Russia in five weeks. 3. What did the Russians do in the face of Napoleon's offensive? What strategy did the Russians adopt? Instead of fighting, they retreated eastward, burning their crops and homes as they went. They let the Russian winter fight the war for...
Why did Austria-Hungary enter WW1? World War I and the Balkans: Austria-Hungary was one of the main combatants in World War I and one of its earliest belligerents, declaring war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary's decision was the spark that helped set off the entire war. ...
LOL. Leftist boobs are like,“But Russia invaded, why are we punishing the poor little Ukarinos, and not demanding anything of Russia?” Ukraine basically tried to launch an oil-spill attack on the Italian coastline, in the hopes people would blame Russia: Putin: Ukraine crisis could have ...
the knockout punch was becoming a thing of the past. The quick win was replaced by the slugfest. That meant more large scale maneuver to gain a position of advantage. Napoleon quickly realized that his massive army couldn’t move and fight together the way the dynastic armies of Eur...
Kissinger should have known better than to have so underestimated the strength of America, since he certainly would have known how Napoleon had foolishly dismissed England as "a nation of shopkeepers" -- where the shopkeepers built a navy that sank Napoleon's, and then carried him to exile on...
annihilation. In the northeast the ordeal of the X Corps was still worse. The retreat of the 1st Marine Division—from the Chosin Reservoir 40 miles to the port of Hungnam and evacuation—would be compared to Xenophon’s retreat of the immortal ten thousand or Napoleon’s withdrawal from ...