“The sun, observed through the dense fog, appeared as a pale whitish-blue disc,” wrote one observer in Palermo, Sicily, on August 8, 1831. Two days later, a person in Saint-Sever, France ...
In October 1813 Napoleon faced the combined might of the Sixth Coalition (Russia, Austria, Prussia, Sweden) near Leipzig, in what would prove to be the decisive battle of his career. Outnumbered ...