A major part of the coup that Catherine the Great planned throughout The Great involved her obtaining the support of various ...

(AP) Oct. 18 at 6:17 a.m. American officers have parlayed their military experience into ... war hero to command a Russian warship for Catherine the Great. Jones, a native of Scotland, arrived ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the ...

Gifted at political calculation and shrewd in military strategy ... cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress ...

Alcibiades was a Greek statesman, military leader and the last notable ... stormed and captured the city again in the name of Catherine the Great. 4. Frederick II, or Frederick the Great, was ...

Catherine the Great began her life as Sophie ... She instead seized control of the Russian military, instigated a coup that deposed and killed her husband, and proceeded to rule over what ...