In 1799, the young French Republic faced war with a coalition of European enemies, and an unpopular and corrupt government at ...

Napoleon Bonaparte — hero of the French Revolution and twice emperor of France — may have been killed by his extreme obsession with cologne, a study has claimed. The former leader died on ...

He brilliantly created a mythical image of himself – an infallible hero, destined by God ... who insisted on calling Napoleon General Bonaparte. Only one weapon was left him — words.

Who was the more successful? Who was the more capable? Who accumulated the most victories? Who has the greatest legacy? Who is better loved by modern historians? Let us step back into 19th-century ...

He grew up speaking the corsicano dialect and Italian, and his name was Gaulified to Napoleon Bonaparte as he and ... identifying with its honest but tragic hero. He later wrote his own ...

It is up to me to give them an example." The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny. "From that moment," he said, "I foresaw what I might be. Already I felt the ...

The name also evokes the French military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte (1776-1821), who seized power after the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor and ruled France until 1815. Napoleon himself ...

General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader, tyrant, and initiator of a series of wars. But one of his lesser-known offenses — abandoning a crew of scholars and scientists in Egypt ...

I end with Napoleon. There is a movie out ... It is curious indeed that Bonaparte, in his lifetime, quite failed to destroy legitimist Europe. In the end, he provoked the Congress of Vienna ...

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby star. If you don’t know the story of Napoleon Bonaparte beyond pop culture standards of his short stature, big ego, and ABBA-recognized surrender at Waterloo ...

PRINCESS ANNE, MD — On May 5th in 1821, French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the remote island of Saint Helena. But years before his death, there were reported plans to ...

Napoleon Bonaparte and Ludwig van Beethoven, interact with anthropoids on an island they visit. Columbus, the explorer once regarded as a “hero” for “discovering” the New World in 1492 ...