Places, museums, monuments

In April 2014, the Museum of the Franco-Prussian War and the Annexation was inaugurated in Gravelotte, a town famous for the battle of Saint-Privat (known as the battle of Gravelotte in Germany) that took place there on 18 August 1870. The museum is not just a linear account of the conflict that broke out between France […]

TO WATERLOO… As we are getting ready for Waterloo, visitors are invited to take the same road as Napoleon in Belgium. From Beaumont to Waterloo, through Charleroi, Fleurus and Ligny, several monuments bear witness to the Emperor’s presence in Wallonia, although they are not necessarily well-known by the general public. However, thanks to the Tourism […]

Lodi is a small Lombard city situated southeast of Milan. On 10 May, 1796, in the course of the first Italian campaign, Lodi was the scene of a violent battle. Bonaparte, after having crossed the Po near Piacenza, pushed to trap the Austrian army of General Beaulieu west of the Adda. Beaulieu fell back, the […]

It was 150 km from Moscow, at Borodino on 7 September 1812, that the most important battle of the Russian campaign took place. Napoleon's army (130,000 men, 28,000 cavalry and 587 cannon) faced the armies of Russia led by Kutusov (135,000 men, 25,000 cavalry and 624 cannon). The fighting lasted 15 hours and the uninterrupted […]

Austerlitz entered history following the battle that was fought there on 2nd December, 1805, between the French army led by Napoleon I and the Russian and Austrian coalition led by the Austrian Emperor Francis I and Tsar Alexander I. This battle, which involved three emperors, ended in a victory for Napoleon, with the signing of […]

The battle of Waterloo took place during the Belgian campaign on June 18, 1815. The French were totally defeated by both the Anglo-Dutch coalition led by Wellington and the Prussian army led by Blücher. The defeat led to the Fall of the First Empire. The historic sites linked to this battle are spread out over […]

Rivoli Veronese, a commune in the province of Verona of about 2000 inhabitants, stretches along the right bank of the river Adige a few miles east of Lake Garda. It sits in a landscape of precipices framed by Mont Baldo on the north and dam of the Adige. In this magnificent setting on January 14, […]

The city of Arcole is situated in the middle of swampland, near the confluence of the Adige and the Alpone about twenty kilometres southeast of Verona. It is famous for the three-day battle that took place there during the first Italian campaign, on 15, 16, and 17 November, 1796. In order to prevent the Austrian […]

The Battle of Marengo took place on the Bormida plain on 14 June 1800, near to the town of Alessandria in Piedmont. The French Arméé de Réserve led by the First Consul fought against the Austrian troops of the Second Coalition. Never was victory so close to defeat. The combat began at 9 am with […]