Harry Atkins

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts that took place at the start of the 19thcentury, when Napoleon led the new French republic into battle against a revolving opposition of allied European states. Driven by revolutionary zeal and militaristic ingenuity, Napoleon oversaw a period of intense warfare against six coalitions, proving his leadership and strategic acumen time and time again, before finally succumbing to defeat, and abdication, in 1815.Here are 10 facts about the conflicts. 1.

Given its tank-like proportions, the fact that the Hummer was initially developed as a military vehicle probably won’t come as much of a surprise. Some may point out that these enormous, cartoonishly rugged SUVs are better suited to the battlefield than civilian roads. But when did Hummers first emerge, and how have they evolved over the years?

The popular concept of the oligarch is now synonymous with the superyachts, sports washing and shady geopolitical manoeuvring of post-Soviet Russia, compounded by the rise to international prominence of Russian billionaires like Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov, Boris Berezovsky and Oleg Deripaska over the last couple of decades. But there’s nothing intrinsically Russian about the notion of oligarchy. Indeed, the word’s Greek etymology (oligarkhía) refers broadly to ‘the rule of a few’.