Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne, in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788. From the painting by Francois Flamenc. Royalist rebels invited the ...

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...

Paintings of the time show him returning ... who insisted on calling Napoleon General Bonaparte. Only one weapon was left him — words. With words, he would launch his last campaign.