Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.
And the story goes that after these heroic citizens and soldiers beat the odds and turned back the invaders, General Zaragoza found time to sit down and write a brief note to the war minister.
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Mr Berlusconi, who first took power in 1994, is Italy's longest serving post-war prime minister.
Speaking shortly before Mr Hollande's address, French War Veterans Minister Kader Arif appeared to rule out a speedy deployment of French troops to Mali.
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He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- With opinion polls showing more than 90 percent of Spaniards are against the war, Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar vowed his support of the war in Iraq would not lead to his ruling Popular Party being "cornered" by leftists and antiwar protesters.
Three times premier and minister of war, he signed the Munich pact with British prime minister Chamberlain which gave Hitler posession of the Sudetenland.
Oh, how one yearns for the resurrection of Ludwig Erhard, the post-World War II economics minister whose tax-cutting policies made possible Germany's "miraculous" growth during the 1950s and 1960s.
He told BBC Radio Wales how Lloyd George was prime minister during World War I, but "wasn't a very successful prime minister afterwards".
The war-time prime minister served as a politician in Dundee between 1908 and 1922, when prohibitionist Edwin Scrymgeour swept to victory.
More than twenty years later, during World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill turned to Horton when the Battle of the Atlantic appeared almost lost.
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On Wednesday, Serbia's justice minister told war crimes prosecutors in The Hague that a new law would be passed allowing the extradition of Yugoslav citizens -- a move that could allow Milosevic to be tried in The Hague.
Israel has said it wants to stay out of the Syrian war, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stated the Jewish state would be prepared to take military action to prevent sophisticated weapons from flowing from Syria to Hezbollah or other extremist groups.
The funeral -- officially ceremonial rather than a state occasion in a distinction invisible to all but the most pedantic royal watcher -- was the first for a former prime minister and war leader since Winston Churchill's body was borne along the same route a generation ago.
It would be a war, said the information minister, Muhammad Adwan, this week, whose effects could be catastrophic.
His reformist rival, Mir Hosein Mousavi, a popular prime minister during the war with Iraq, may also mount a strong challenge.
In 1944, in World War II, British Prime Minister Churchill arrived in Russia for talks with Stalin at the Third Moscow Conference.
Thatcher's ceremony was one step short of a state funeral, which is usually reserved for the monarch but was provided for Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister during World War II.
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Thatcher's funeral is one step short of a state funeral, which is usually reserved for the monarch but was provided for Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister during World War II.
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The ceremonial funeral is one step short of a state funeral, which is usually reserved for the monarch but was provided for Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister during World War II.
"I think the problems which have been happening in Darfur are problems which can be happening in any place of the world where there is a war, " Sudanese Interior Minister Ibrahim Hamid said.
The nearest he has come to disaster was through his closeness to Bettino Craxi, the Socialist who was Italy's longest-ruling prime minister since the war, but fell into disgrace in the wake of the Tangentopoli (Bribesville) scandals that swept away the old establishments across the political board after 1992.
As prime minister during the Gulf war in 1991, Mr Sharif speeded the deployment of 50, 000 Pakistani troops to defend the holy land.
When it comes to war with Iraq, the prime minister is, if anything, even more confident about the role he, and he alone, must play.
The day began with Mr Kaczynski and his Prime Minister Donald Tusk joining war veterans beside a monument to the heroes of Westerplatte at 0445 (0245 GMT).
Keen to keep Malaysia competitive, the prime minister has recently declared war on costs and set a target of zero inflation, though the current 3.5% rate is already the envy of other countries.
He gave warning to Colombia's president that any attempt to mount a similar operation in Venezuela would lead to war and he ordered his defence minister to send ten battalions, including armoured units, to the border.
And as the only prime minister to have led Israel to defeat in war - and indeed, in his case, in two wars - Olmert is the only prime minister to have wielded the sword with utter strategic incompetence.
Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments during World War II.
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Mr Blair is the first prime minister since the second world war to enunciate a detailed philosophy of British power in the modern world.
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