The storied trove of Napoleonic materials owned by Pierre-Jean Chalençon will be offered by Sotheby’s Paris on June 24 in an ...

Similarly, during the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon encouraged the consumption of coffee over tea, which was associated with Britain. He believed coffee would help French citizens stay alert and ...

He conquered Europe—but even history’s giants fall, and the cause is more mysterious than you think.

In 1803, war erupted in Europe once again. Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of the First Republic of France, had an eye on conquering Great Britain, assembling as many as 200,000 soldiers near ...

the image of the diminutive French leader angrily conquering Europe to compensate for his lack of height has become firmly embedded in our collective consciousness. The "Napoleon complex" even ...

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a ...

But the towering shrewdness with which Napoleon conquered most of Europe and won an unprecedented 90% of his battles is absent from the film. Only three of Napoleon’s 80 battles are portrayed ...

Napoleon opens in theaters Wednesday, November 22. Imagine how Napoleon Bonaparte would feel if he could somehow learn the definition of “Napoleon complex.” The French commander who conquered ...

Napoleon is alleged to have once said: 'There are only two powers in the world - the sword and the mind.' He presented the sword to his last Marshal of the Empire, Emmanuel de Grouchy, to reward ...

After a coup d'etat of the French government in 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte began his conquest of Europe. By 1804, Bonaparte had made himself the emperor of France and was quickly amassing power.

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory ... the moment has arrived when we must conquer or die!” Army movements during the last three days of the ...