Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte came to prominence as a brilliant military commander during the ...

Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2 ... Napoleon swiftly won the ensuing War of the Third Coalition with his finest victory, at Austerlitz in 1805. The next year the Prussians also ...

During the last months of 1814, Napoleon grew bored playing at Emperor of Elba. He never took his eye off France, where the Allies had made the mistake of restoring an eager but weak Bourbon king ...

But the French seemingly can't get enough of the dead French emperor. A rough count by Jean Tulard, an eminent French historian, puts the number of books published about Napoleon at almost 85,000.

However, the Third Coalition collapsed in very quick order. Emperor Francis had already offered an armistice to Napoleon early on December 3, and when Tsar Alexander signaled his desire to take ...

On May 5th in 1821, French military leader Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the remote island of Saint Helena. But years ...

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 ...