Seeing that Russia may not stop at Ukraine, Warsaw has begun to ramp up its military spending. The balance of power is ...

A true but little known story from the Haitian Revolution. Late in the war, things were looking grim for sketchy old France, ...

This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Growing to encompass much of northern and central Europe ...

Defeating the Prussian army at the battles of Jéna and ... To defeat Russia, Napoleon marched his soldiers deep into Poland. WOLOCH: Napoleon’s justification is that you always have to take ...

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being received ...