Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

Amidst the list of America’s founding fathers who are inextricably linked with the 4th of July, one name sticks out: George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Franklin. Pyotr Ilyich ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of ...

The elevating, at times appalling, path to America’s founding Rick Atkinson’s new Revolutionary War history is an unblinking portrait of wonderful nation’s birthing.

ABC's World News Tonight anchor David Muir showed how one snow day had transformed the lake near his $7 million upstate New York home, see here… ...

At Borodino the line of battle was two miles long; this week it was 3,000 miles long. At Borodino 250,000 men were engaged; this week several million men were fighting. On the Fronts.

Vanessa Kirby plays Joséphine to Joaquin Phoenix's Napoleon Bonaparte in this latest historical epic from director Ridley Scott.

Anthony Lane reviews Ridley Scott’s bio-pic “Napoleon,” starring Joaquin Phoenix, and “Monster,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film of schoolboy angst.

Joaquin Phoenix plays the French emperor Napoleon in a military/romantic epic that’s a mash-up of Leo Tolstoy, Edward Albee and Wikipedia.

Like many young Russian men of his era, Pyotr was soon caught up in the Napoleonic Wars, most memorably at the infamous Battle of Borodino (1812) which, unlike thousands of others, he survived ...