Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...

He had nearly broken through the British line, but it was too late. The first time in the whole history of the Napoleonic wars the Guard was seen to falter and then eventually fall back ...

The city is now home to a monument to those early Irish settlers named Emmit Park. But more was to come. By 1812, the Napoleonic war had left Ireland in bad shape. Indigent Catholics and prominent ...