Curated playlist
Wars involving the Russian Empire
- War of the Third CoalitionMarshals Murat and Lannes took the Vienna bridge in 1805 by falsely claiming an armistice.
- Crimean WarFewer than half of 80,000 Russian soldiers in the Crimean War survived, mostly from disease.
- War of the Fourth CoalitionAt Auerstedt, one badly outnumbered French corps beat the bulk of the Prussian army. Prussia's king then took command.
- French Revolutionary WarsFrance ordered the first mass conscription in history on the 23rd of August 1793.
- Boxer RebellionThe Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, rested on a belief that bullets could not kill its fighters. To convince new initiates, members fired guns loaded with blank rounds at one another. The…
- French invasion of RussiaNapoleon's army in Russia lost a third of its men before any major battle. Typhus and hunger struck in eight weeks.
- Russo-Persian WarsThe Russo-Persian Wars grew from silk trade and ended with Persia paying Russia twenty million rubles in silver.
- Russo-Japanese WarThe Russo-Japanese War began on the night of the 8th of February 1904, when Japanese torpedo boats struck the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur. The blow landed three hours before Japan's declaration of war reached the Russian…
- World War IWorld War I began with two pistol shots in a Sarajevo street. Gavrilo Princip's shots killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
- Finnish WarIn February 1808, 24,000 Russian troops crossed into Swedish Finland. By November, Russia had overrun all of Finland.