1813

A Mere Matter of Marching, Part 1 April 27, 1813 From aboard the corvette Madison, Brigadier General Zebulon Pike watched the battalion of green-clad riflemen advance in skirmish order through his spyglass. Major Benjamin Forsyth of the 1st Regiment of U.S. Riflemen was leading them. 'A...

On May 2nd 1813, Napoleon attacked the Russo-Prussian Army in Lutzen, Saxony. The result was the withdrawal of Coalition forces from Saxony and its capital Dresden. The main reason the Coalition lost was because their forces were spread out throught most of Eastern Germany while Napoleon had his...

What if the French forces in Spain, under Marshal Jourdan, had managed to defeat the Anglo-Spanish forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813? I'd wager that the French would still want to make king Joseph's possessions in Spain more compact, as holding to...

Prologue Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow was watching the battle unfolding under his eyes with what came close to utter satisfaction. In the privacy of his own mind and only there, he admitted that, although a dedicated army reformer, he had been deathly afraid of moving away from the...