In 1799, the young French Republic faced war with a coalition of European enemies, and an unpopular and corrupt government at ...

Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant was shocked by the paralysis of local authorities after the Battle of Solferino, and then ...

People usually define history as a discipline used to study and analyze past events and to investigate the patterns of cause ...

This really was one hell of a way to kick off the 2025 travel season. It all started on Thursday night after the crew ...

South Sudanese authorities have suspended access to social media platforms for a minimum of 30 days after videos depicting ...

What happened when Napoleon faced the full force of the Sixth Coalition at Leipzig in October 1813? In the largest and bloodiest European battle before WWI, his high-risk strategy against ...

Forget this week's minor decrease in the UK inflation number. The most important European data release was the confirmation from Germany that, during 2024, its economy contracted for the second ...

When Great Britain was blockaded by Napoleonic Europe in the early 19 th century it simply redirected trade to the rest of the world and helped create a thriving black market in British goods.

The same is true for other European countries whose excruciating debt crises once pushed the euro area close to breaking point. Now, some 15 years later, for Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and ...

And Trump’s brand of America First isolationism has always sat awkwardly with his Napoleonic tendencies ... Greenland is classified as a European Union Overseas Country and Territory.

When Russia targets other European neighbors, though, the West resorts to its own euphemisms to avoid directly acknowledging what Putin is doing. Last month, the undersea power cable Estlink 2 ...

Dr. Stanley-Becker is a national security reporter at The Washington Post and the author of the forthcoming book “Europe Without Borders: A History.” When I crossed a bridge spanning the Rhine ...