As enemy armies stormed into France, Napoleon struck back with dazzling precision. Yet behind every victory loomed the one ...

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“The basic problem facing Black people is their powerlessness,” he once said.

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We were the children of 1812.” That was when Napoleon invaded Russia; two years later Russian forces entered Paris. They ...