One could say the same of Napoleon Bonaparte ... Hegel, he was the Enlightenment on horseback, clearing away thrones and altars to make room for the modern world. To the nineteenth-century ...

but on an intra-class class conflict between the old landed aristocracy and new industrial elites that allowed Louis Napoleon to ride in as the “man on horseback”. Promising to restore the ...

Russian Cossacks on horseback Sunday kicked off a two-month-long friendly march on Paris to mark the bicentenary of a key battle Russia fought against Napoleon that led to an eventual French defeat.