Napoleon’s return from Elba and the campaign that ended at Waterloo.
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The opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989.
Lü Bu, the warrior remembered as the Flying General.
George Washington’s evacuation across the East River after the Battle of Long Island.
The 1956 Suez Crisis and the struggle over control of the canal.
Audie Murphy’s stand near Holtzwihr, France, in January 1945.
Sabaton’s “Berserker” tells the story of the lone Norse warrior said to have held Stamford Bridge in 1066.
The return of Napoleon’s remains to France and the making of his posthumous legend.
Zheng Yi Sao and the pirate confederation that challenged Qing control of the South China coast.
The coup of 18 Brumaire that ended the French Directory.
Julius Caesar’s march into Italy and the Roman civil war.
Operation Chastise and the RAF’s attack on German dams in May 1943.
The US Army medic who rescued wounded soldiers on Okinawa.
The Cold War domino theory and the escalation of US involvement in Vietnam.
The 1942 carrier-launched air raid led by Jimmy Doolittle.
Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo on 18 June 1815.
Napoleon’s final exile on Saint Helena and his death in 1821.
Balto and the 1925 relay that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska.
The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the war that followed.
Winter fighting in and around Haguenau in Alsace during the Second World War.
Genghis Khan and the rise of the Mongol Empire.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to the French throne and the collapse of his empire.
The retreat of Napoleon’s army from Russia in 1812.
Vlad III and the struggle for control of Wallachia.
The Boston Tea Party of 16 December 1773.
The political and military division of Europe after the Second World War.
Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout and the Battle of Auerstedt in 1806.
A track from Histrocore’s album Rise of Napoleon.
Japan’s carrier striking force and the Battle of Midway in June 1942.
Hannibal’s march across the Alps during the Second Punic War.
The 1876 defeat of George Armstrong Custer’s command at the Little Bighorn.
Napoleon’s early military career and the nickname associated with his soldiers.
Gail Halvorsen and the candy parachutes of the Berlin Airlift.
Joan of Arc and the turning point at Orléans in the Hundred Years’ War.
The merchant brigantine found abandoned in the Atlantic in 1872.
HMS Hood and the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
The fall of the French monarchy during the Revolution.
The Battle of Jutland between the British and German fleets in 1916.
The United Nations landing at Incheon during the Korean War.
The 1968 reform movement in Czechoslovakia and the invasion that ended it.
The April 1988 US naval operation against Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf.
The loss of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse off Malaya in December 1941.
Napoleon’s victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805.
Ramesses II and the reign that left Abu Simbel and the Ramesseum.
The Russian revolutions of 1917 and the Bolshevik seizure of power.
The German drive through the Ardennes and the US defence of Elsenborn Ridge in December 1944.
The racehorse that became a national sporting figure in Depression-era America.
The US–Soviet competition in space, from Sputnik to the Moon.
The rise and suppression of the medieval Knights Templar.
Senusret III and the power of Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.
Miyamoto Musashi, the Japanese swordsman and strategist.
The student-led White Rose resistance against Nazi rule.
Gustavus Adolphus and Sweden’s intervention in the Thirty Years’ War.
The 1793 siege that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to prominence.
The Japanese naval victory over Russia in the Tsushima Strait in May 1905.
The East German workers’ uprising of June 1953.
The Japanese battleship Yamato and its final mission to Okinawa in 1945.