For the man with history’s first recorded Napoleon complex, it must have been the consummate insult. After Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous campaign in Russia ended in defeat, he was forced into exile ...

Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign looked unstoppable—until it wasn’t. One decisive naval battle cut off his supplies, trapped his ...

This article contains spoilers for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon. Even in the first trailer, it is an immensely chilly spectacle. On a frozen field in central Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte, the supreme general ...

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circa 1810: Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) in military uniform. Original Publication: From a painting by Delaroche. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Napoleon won nearly 90% of his ...

Tom Johnson, the famous smuggler, adventurer, and inventor of submarines, sketched in 1834 for the publication of Scenes and Stories by a Clergyman in Debt. Tom Johnson was one of those extraordinary ...

Dubbed "the pistols that might have changed the course of history" the dual flintlock guns were owned by the famous French general until 1814 - the year he considered using them to take his own life, ...

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