James Quinn’s lucid, authoritative and brilliantly concise study of the 1798 Rebellion contains a passage that answers ...

When Russia resumed trading with England, Napoleon prepared to invade Russia. Napoleon amassed an army of 600,000, the largest army Europe had ever seen. After a failed invasion of Moscow, the French ...

Do movies need to accurately reflect history? Yes, says historian Alan Strauss-Schom, who wrote the landmark 1997 biography “ Napoleon Bonaparte.” “There’s plenty of information. People do not have to ...

On March 1, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor who had been defeated a year earlier, returned to France after a year of exile. Historian John Schmidt recalls this moment in history which ...

A memorial to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is pictured at the Casone Square in his birth city of Ajaccio, Corsica, on March 15, 2021. (Photo by PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP) Think of the ...

Napoleon was one of the most powerful men in history, but also one of the strangest. From a thousand-rabbit attack to the bizarre fate of his most private body part, history has a very weird side. In ...

There is no greater collector or no greater fan of Napoleon Bonaparte than Pierre-Jean Chalençon. He is easily the most prolific collector of Napoleonic material, reportedly estimated to be more than ...