The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria ...

Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and ... But as 1806 drew to a close, Napoleon was still at war. Austria and Prussia had both surrendered, but the Russians — bloodied after ...

Not since the 1970s has there been such an important discovery from the Great War in France. In woods on a ridge not far from the city of Reims, the bodies of more than 270 German soldiers have ...

Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation. Using German, French, British, ...

during World War Two. French and German teams discovered bullets and cartridges, as well as coins, at a remote site in central France identified by the last surviving witness. After France ...

The German northern wing was weakened further ... the Marne was a great strategic victory, as it enabled the French to continue the war. However, the Germans succeeded in capturing a large part ...