Both Napoleon and Hitler underestimated the resolve and capacity of their adversaries. During WW2, German intelligence ...

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In the summer of 1812, the legendary French general Napoleon Bonaparte led an army about half a million strong to invade Russia. The Russians retreated but burned the countryside as they withdrew, ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: Wilson’s intervention in the Russian Revolution was conceived with vague, limited goals that inevitably crept to encompass impossible ambitions. It was led astray ...