Then, on February 26, 1815, he slipped off of Elba with a handful ... Now Great Britain, Prussia, Austria, and Russia united once again to declare Napoleon an outlaw — "an enemy and a disturber ...

However, when Germany's national team was established in 1899, they chose to adopt the white and black colors of the Prussian ...

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince has recently been published in Prussian under the name Likuts Princis. The new translation of this masterpiece of world literature is the result of the ...

When Napoleon was defeated (firstly at Leipzig in 1813 and then at Waterloo in 1815), the German princes broke this promise. The German princes did not feel long-lasting reform was necessary for ...

"The idea that Prussia could take the field against me by herself," he said, "seems so ridiculous that it does not merit discussion." Within three weeks in October of 1806, he brought the ...

False flag attacks have a long and ignoble history. The night before Germany invaded Poland, seven German SS soldiers pretending to be Polish stormed the Gleiwitz radio tower on the German side of ...

Prussia's development as a successful, modern industrial state gave hope to German nationalists. Economically, unification through the Zollverein economic alliance of 1834 had been a success ...

Instead, they wear the colour because the flag of Prussia - the state that once stretched from the border of Russia to the western edge of France - was white. Prussia formed the German empire in ...

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This was the case of Prussia, a former duchy that in the early 1700s emerged from the shadow of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Growing to encompass much of northern and central Europe ...

Imperial Victor and Military Genius, London, 2010; Alan Sked, The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 2nd. edition, London and New York, 2001; Gary W. Shanafelt, The Secret Enemy.