“Napoleonic history is the beginning of modern history,” says director Ridley Scott of the subject of his latest historical epic. “He changed the world; he rewrote the rulebook.” Many will know ...

Invading Russia is unlikely to go well because of the country’s huge strategic depth; armies can simply retreat east into Siberia and fight a war of attrition while winter defeats the invaders. This ...

The LGB Alliance said that 'homosexuality was not celebrated in the Napoleonic era' - Lifestyle pictures/Alamy Stock Photo The Napoleonic Wars have been cited as a part of “queer history” in an ...

Though he earned his place in history as a ruthless emperor and military genius, Napoleon Bonaparte was also a peerless megalomaniac. In the final years of his forced exile on the South Atlantic ...

Background Numerous hypotheses on the cause of Napoleon Bonaparte's death have been proposed, including hereditary gastric cancer, arsenic poisoning, and inappropriate medical treatment. We aimed to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Moscow: Sunday was to have been the day of Oleg Sokolov's spectacular suicide, in full Napoleonic costume, at St Petersburg's Peter and ...

A bounty of more than 100 Napoleon objects stunned at Sotheby’s Paris auction on Wednesday, when it raked in €8.3 million ($9.7 million), beating its presale estimate of €6 million ($7 million).