A uniform used by a local sailor to trick his way out of prison during the Napoleonic Wars has gone on display at the ...

since by his side stood Jacques Étienne Joseph Alexandre Macdonald (1765-1840), the son of a Jacobite refugee who rose to be a Marshall of the French Empire. Napoleon knew very well where General ...

The Hollywood director faced attacks from critics in the European country over false history, with haters of the film making ...

Wall St. Insights The Second Empire style spread throughout Europe and America in the late 19th century with the renewal of ...

and several German states formed the Sixth Coalition and defeated the First French Empire. But despite his best efforts, Napoleon never rose to power again. After his loss at Waterloo, Napoleon ...

The King of England for 38 years, Henry VIII wrote his lover, Anne Boleyn, a collection of secret, romantic letters for her.

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to epitomize the artistic splendor of the 1804-1815 French First Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). Napoleon started his military career in the service of the First French Republic ...

October 14th has witnessed a number of significant historical events throughout the centuries. From pivotal battles and ...

On Saturday, June 18th, 1815, one of Napoleon’s most trusted generals failed him. In what ended up being the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the First French Empire, France lost the Battle of ...

Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political dimensions of the wars and the social, legal, political and economic structures of the Empire.