and waved flaming torches. It was December 2, 1805, the first anniversary of his coronation. Napoleon told an aide, "This is the finest evening of my life." Daybreak came with an impenetrable fog.

And no, Napoleon never charged up the Alps on a galloping white steed as is depicted by Jacques-Louis David in a set of ...

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the greatest military ... He made a fool of Czar Alexander I at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. He encircled an entire Austrian army and forced them to capitulate ...