Napoleon had never lost a major battle—until now. Overconfidence and a brutal fight along the Danube led to his first crushing defeat and the loss of his closest friend. Ontario's Ford suspends ...

By the time Napoleon returned to France from Egypt in ... With no hope of escape, he put himself at the mercy of Great Britain. He wished, he said, "to reside in a country house near London." ...

many Europeans had heard of the Great Pyramids or the Sphinx, but the ancient temples and monuments of Upper Egypt were unknown. Dominique-Vivant Denon, an artist and writer, accompanied Napoleon ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

As 1805 began, Napoleon was planning to cross the English Channel and invade Great Britain with 2000 ships and 200,000 soldiers. The French and British were at war once again: irreconcilable ...

At just nine-years-old, Napoleon left home for a military school, where he was bullied. Princeton professor of history David Bell remarks, “His great ambition until 1793 was to bring Corsica ...

One showed Napoleon being crowned emperor ... Lafayette wrote about his letter to Bonaparte in a different letter to his great friend Thomas Jefferson, saying that “to an absolute government ...

Nevertheless, Napoleon’s Commentaries on the Wars of Julius Caesar is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in either Caesar or Napoleon, or the though patterns of the great captains.

The story of Napoleon’s buttons is one of those great cautionary tales about the potentially dire consequences of ignoring the chemical properties of substances. Most engineering students probably ...