by granting him the highest German military ceremony Aug. 10. Hodges was welcomed at Schloss Biebrich in Wiesbaden, Germany, a baroque residence from the 18th century, serving as venue for the ...

“Magnificent Rebels,” by Andrea Wulf, paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics ... and venerated Napoleon as a genius while his army advanced through Europe.

Christoph von Manstein, a Prussian military man ... Monstrous enough, the military ethics of the 18th century considered captured territory subject to looting by default. But at home, a soldier ...

In other words, clear military defeat wrote the end of these stories for the ... burden the next as it became distracted by a new conflict. The comparison between 18th-century Prussia and 21st-century ...