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Portrait of a Polish Lancer- by Edouard Detaille

Nils Wadensten - French Hussar and Peasant Girl, 1810's

French 6th Cuirassier Regiment in 1887.

Portrait of Henri de la Rochejaquelein - Pierre-Narcisse Guérin - 1817 - oil on canvas - Museum of Art and History in Cholet

When people refer to ancient empires these days, especially the biggest ones, Rome is invariably brought up. The fall of the Roman Empire is used as an example of greatness toppled by its own avarice, pride, greed, foolishness, or whatever other vice is being explained. The thing is, while the Roman Empire did conquer vast expanses of the world and it did exist for a very long time, in a technical sense it was not actually that big. Relatively speaking, at under two million square miles, the…

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The Eagle's Flight by Hugues Merle

Continental System: (known in French as Blocus continental) was the foreign policy of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.

Emperor of France

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