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Beethoven used the theme we have come to associate primarily with his Third Symphony no less than four times, starting with the seventh of his 12 unpublished “Contredanses” from 1800-02 and in the ...

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He was exiled to another island, Elba, just six miles off the Italian ... Army on a European crusade that left nearly 100,000 men killed or wounded. After his loss at Waterloo, in June 1815 ...

The former Goldman Sachs banker on the impact of US tariffs, and his role in structuring Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan ...

NAPOLEON! Read our review and download the game for free on Steam. Take part in historical battles and command Napoleon's ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

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The Swiss Guard was established by Pope Julius II in 1506. Here's what to know about the 500-year-old military body.