The French Emperor is famous for a lot of things, but this lasting myth about Napoleon has shaped the way we see him through ...

"Love him or hate him, Napoleon is a figure probably unrivaled in modern history." Today Jonathon Riley, a British General ...

He grew up speaking the corsicano dialect and Italian, and his name was Gaulified to Napoleon Bonaparte as he and his family painfully accommodated themselves to French rule. In fact, he was ...

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

As the honorary French consul on the British island of St. Helena, he oversees Longwood House, Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in exile from 1815 to 1821, the last years of his life. Dancoisne ...

In the summer of 1815, the gruelling Battle of Waterloo raged. It would be the conflict that would finally put an end to the ...

Two months before Napoleon's historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains in Europe that may have ended his rule.

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

Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic.

In May 1804, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of the French, and shortly thereafter, the two were married again, this time with all the pomp and ceremony their new titles afforded them.