Curated playlist
Knights Grand Cross of the Military Order of William
- Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency four times, the only person in American history to serve more than two terms. He took office on the 4th of March 1933, when a quarter of the workforce had no job and 32 of the 48 states had shut…
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of WellingtonArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was born in Dublin in 1769 as the sixth of nine children, and died in 1852 holding the rank of Field Marshal and the position of Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. His mother once described…
- Napoleon IIINapoleon III was born in the Tuileries Palace in Paris on the night of the 19th-the 20th of April 1808 - the first Bonaparte prince born after the proclamation of the First French Empire. His godfather was the Emperor Napoleon I himself.…
- Alexander III of RussiaAlexander III of Russia was born on the 10th of March 1845 at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, the second son of the future Alexander II. He grew up as a spare, not an heir. His elder brother Nicholas was the one schooled for empire,…
- Alexander I of RussiaAlexander I of Russia was born at 10:45 on the 23rd of December 1777 in Saint Petersburg, held at the baptismal font by Catherine the Great herself and counted Frederick the Great and Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor among his godfathers. He…
- Frederick William III of PrussiaFrederick William III entered the world on the 3rd of August 1770 in Potsdam. His father Frederick William II of Prussia neglected him during his childhood years. A tutor named Johann Jakob Engel taught the young prince alongside other…
- Nicholas I of RussiaNicholas I of Russia died on the 2nd of March 1855 at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, refusing medical treatment as his empire crumbled around him. He caught a chill during the Crimean War, and rumor spread almost immediately that his…
- Alexander II of RussiaAlexander II of Russia was born on the 29th of April 1818, and by the time he died he had freed more than 23 million people from bondage, sold an entire continent's worth of territory, and been blown apart by a bomb on a canal road in…
- Louis Philippe ILouis Philippe I stepped onto the throne of France in August 1830 having already lived more lives than most kings ever get. He was born in the Palais-Royal on the 6th of October 1773, the eldest son of a prince who would one day vote to…
- Gebhard Leberecht von BlücherGebhard Leberecht von Blücher was 74 years old, still reeking of schnapps and rhubarb liniment, still aching from being trampled under cavalry horses two days earlier, when he led his army on a muddy night march to rescue the Duke of…
- Michael Andreas Barclay de TollyMichael Andreas Barclay de Tolly led the largest Russian army to face Napoleon in 1812, and his countrymen called him a coward and a traitor. Rumors spread that he was Napoleon's own agent. His subordinates demanded he abandon the strategy…