Militares

Albert Jean Michel Rocca participó en la invasión napoleónica de la península ibérica. Desde las vicisitudes sufridas en el campo de batalla nos ofrece un análisis del comportamiento de los españoles ante aquel acontecimiento. Hombre ilustrado, su análisis no es el de un fervoroso soldado, sino el (...)

El sargento vélite de granaderos de la Guardia Imperial Adrien Bourgogne fue un veterano de las campañas de Napoleón curtido en las batallas de Jena, Pultusk, Eylau, Eilsberg, Friedland, Essling, Wagram, Somosierra, Benavente, Smolensko, Borodinó, Krasnoi, el Berézina, Lutzen y Bautzen. Pero nada (...)

In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an independent Kingdom of Italy emerged. These (...)

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the (...)