Napoleon Bonaparte, France’s famed military commander and emperor, formally gave up his throne. Under the Treaty of ...

Two months before Napoleon's historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains ...

1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in ...

Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2, 1804, turning the French Republic into the French Empire, with a Bonaparte line of succession. He felt that this provision for continuity was ...

Samantha Reinders “Please, take the emperor’s seat,” says Michel ... he oversees Longwood House, Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in exile from 1815 to 1821, the last years of his life.

Since the invasion plans by the emperor's entourage, relations between France and Brazil have gone through several upheavals ...

On April 11, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Army troops liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, ...

The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was ... Stunned by the advancing French armies, the Austrian Emperor sued for peace. Bonaparte himself negotiated with the Austrian diplomats.

Col. Lloyd M. Morris, director of the Blair County-Altoona Civil Defense Council, was presented the CD’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Citation, in ceremonies at the Pentagon in Washington, ...

In 1471, during a series of civil wars for control of the English throne, known as the Wars of the Roses, King Edward IV of England seized London from Henry ...

‘The Exile’s Departure’ courtesy of: Torre Abbey Historic House and Art Gallery, Torquay, copyright Torbay Council. Following his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (1815) Napoleon Bonaparte ...