Though Napoleon Bonaparte was often known to prefer simple meals, his last meal was an extravagant breakfast full of ...

Two pistols owned by the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, with which he once intended to kill himself, have been sold at auction for €1.69m (£1.4m). The weapons, which were created by the ...

Napoleon apparently hid out and rested here during the Peninsular War, after being wooed by both its comfortable rooms (and ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

Only a fraction of Napoleon's Grande Armée made it back to France A Russian historian has come up with a new theory about the legend that the French Emperor Napoleon hid wagonloads of stolen ...

Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning ...

To understand France’s failure, we must begin with three French spies: Dravermann, Médina, and Dauxion-Lavaysse. Memorise ...

"Austria wants to get slapped; she shall have it," Napoleon boasted. "If the Emperor Francis attempts any hostile move, he will soon have ceased to reign." Two weeks later, Napoleon battered the ...