Set in the Napoleonic wars, Cossacks 2: Battle for Europe doesn’t feature Sean Bean giving it his Northern best as Sharpe, which is good. Instead, the game firmly plants its feet in history and follows some of the major battles of that time, which saw a combined force of British, Russian and Portuguese armies (as well as a few others) get together and kick French butt.
An RTS that let's you whoop the French? Bring it on!

Read all about it in this Cossacks 2: Battle for Europe PC Review.