Our system is not designed to enable efficient, humane government. The Holy Roman Empire was finally dissolved when Napoleon, commanding the first modern national army, steamrolled the coalition ...

For answers we should look back in time to when Germany was part of the Holy Roman ... by Napoleon in 1806. In the words of James Madison, the fourth president of the US, the empire was “a ...

Joachim Whaley's ground-breaking history of the Holy Roman Empire escapes the shadow cast by the Nazis, finds Peter Oborne. By Peter Oborne 28 March 2012 • 10:37am The Court of Emperor Frederick ...

Napoleon, one of history's great military commanders ... under the guise of the House of Savoy, which served the Holy Roman Emperor of Austria. Wounded in battle 13 times during his 39 year ...

before it was finally broken up by Napoleon in 1806. It was the nationalist era that followed which ended tragically for mainland Europe, as Germany filled the power vacuum the Holy Roman Empire ...

Gladiator 2 starring Paul Mescal as Lucius offers epic, high-octane violence in a Roman Empire setting. Despite historical inaccuracies, movies like Gladiator & Napoleon provide epic, enthralling ...

A few pages into “Napoleon: A Life,” historian Andrew ... and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire.” Contemporary jihadis, by contrast, are building nothing ...

Pope Pius XI last week appointed Andrew Francis Cardinal Fruhwirth, papal nuncio at Munich, to be Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church ... reformed the office when Napoleon obviated the need ...