In the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the term sapper carries weight. For 250 years, sappers have served as elite combat ...

In 1809, with Napoleon and his best troops bogged down in Spain, Austria decided to try to get revenge for her humiliation at Austerlitz three years before. Archduke Charles led an invasion of ...

A quick guide to infantry tactics and formations of the Napoleonic period, which first appeared in our video on the Battle of ...