Imperial Age Era

1815 – 1914 CE

From Waterloo to the eve of the Great War — nation-building, colonial campaigns, and the professionalization of mass armies.

Commanders

"Keep the right wing strong."

"No plan of operations survives the first contact with the enemy's main body."

"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."

"On the ruins of a crumbling empire I will build a vast kingdom of my own."

"I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, force..."

"When you march into France, let the last man on the right brush the Channel with..."

"Here we make Italy, or we die."