This bold debut from Guardian columnist Nwanevu calls for a major overhaul of American democracy. Looking to ancient Athens as the supposed forerunner of today’s system, Nwanevu Continue reading ...

On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia ...

In 1815, England's Duke of Wellington and Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard von Blucher defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in Belgium ...

One of the greatest military strategists, Napoleon Bonaparte, fought and lost at the Battle of Waterloo on 1815. This marked ...

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Congress of Vienna / histoire-image.org It happened in the 20th century (87) The final act of the Congress of Vienna was signed on 9 June 1815. This document was highly significant, shaping the fate ...

A new Europe was born at the Congress of Vienna. A Dutch–Belgian composite state, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, appeared in the north-west. Norway was transferred from Denmark to Sweden.

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THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. Share full article. April 29, 1883. ... and if Napoleon's return from Elba had not deprived France of her title to maintain her frontiers of 1792 under the treaty of Paris ...