January 6, 2022 • 13m
One of the last bastions of French resistance in the new year 1871 is Belfort. A ragtag army called "Army of the East" rushes to f...Read more
January 13, 2022 • 13m
In minus 20 degrees the rag tag French Armee L'Est still tries to relieve Belfort - which is under siege by the Baden Corps under ...Read more
January 20, 2022 • 13m
The proclamation of the German Empire on 18 January 1871 is usually portraited as a glorious ceremony. Most people associated it w...Read more
January 27, 2022 • 13m
The end of the Franco-Prussian War is marked by humiliation for France. German soldiers march into Paris and the French Army of th...Read more
February 3, 2022 • 13m
The Siege of Paris and the end of the Franco-Prussian War had brought social unrest in Paris (and other French cities) to a boilin...Read more
March 3, 2022 • 13m
When Napoleon's Grande Armee crossed the Nemen river into the Russian Empire in 1812, the die had been cast. In the years between ...Read more
March 11, 2022 • 13m
When Napoleon marched his Grande Armée into Russia in 1812, he had assembled the biggest army in modern European history. Only hal...Read more
March 17, 2022 • 13m
The Battle of Mir 1812 was the first battle of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Polish Uhlans ride right into a trap set by Platov's...Read more
March 24, 2022 • 13m
In the beginning of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the Russian Tsar Alexander I was under pressure to rally his people. A months i...Read more
March 31, 2022 • 13m
The two Russian Western Armies are trying to join up to mount a defense against Napoleon's invasion of Russia. But the speed of th...Read more
April 7, 2022 • 13m
Smolensk is an important symbolic city to the Russians in 1812, for Napoleon it's a strategic objective he wants to conquer to imp...Read more
April 14, 2022
French general Junot and Emperor Napoleon I had a bit of a history by the time of the 1812 campaign. Even though Junot has been in...Read more
April 21, 2022
he face of war was changing in 1812. While the Russian Army retreated and left behind scorched earth, Russian partisans took up ar...Read more
April 28, 2022
Napoleon's advancing army had finally spotted the entire Russian Army before them, the stage was set for the deciding clash of the...Read more
May 5, 2022
The Battle of Borodino was the deadliest single day in history until the outbreak of the First World War. It was the culmination o...Read more
May 12, 2022
After the Battle of Borodino, both sides are badly mauled. Napoleon's Army marches on and reaches Moscow, the old Russian capital....Read more
May 25, 2022
When Napoleon took Moscow, he expected victory over Russia was just a matter of time. But six weeks later he has to flee the city ...Read more
June 16, 2022 • 30m
Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and from Russia as a whole is one of the most dramatic scenes in history. Starving and freezing, th...Read more
August 26, 2022 • 28m
The two Schleswig Wars of 1848-51 and 1864 mark an important period in European History. Intertwined with the 1848 revolutions, th...Read more
September 23, 2022 • 58m
After settling the Schleswig-Holstein question in 1864, Austria and Prussia are uneasy allies. Both are the biggest players in the...Read more
October 13, 2022 • 3m
Episode 21 of Season 2 premiered on October 13, 2022
October 21, 2022 • 31m
The Battle of the Bulge was one of the last German offensives during the Second World War. It caught the US Army off guard in the ...Read more
November 25, 2022 • 19m
The American invasion of Okinawa was the last big island operation on the Pacific Front. It took the US Marines and Army troops se...Read more
December 16, 2022 • 29m
After Napoleon's defeat in Russia in 1812, the situation on the European continent is rapidly shifting. Prussia and Austria are le...Read more