In his novel “Les Miserables”, Victor Hugo wrote “an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World.” He’s referring to the Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon’s army ensured ...

In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo said of the Battle of Waterloo that "an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World." Indeed, bad weather caused by ...

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 ...

In 1812, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France was considered unstoppable. The weather did not get the memo and he slunk out of a Russian winter, defeated. Three years later, he again attempted to ...