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After conquering Europe, Napoleon faced his most unexpected enemy—rabbits. What was supposed to be a victory celebration turned into one of the weirdest defeats in history.
In the early 19th century, as Napoleon's conquests threatened British interests across Europe, the British deployed their secret weapon—not cannons or ships, but rather the satirical pen of a ...
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 ...
Napoleon's prized sword that he kept as he conquered Europe - but French Emperor gave blade worth staggering sum away before defeat at Waterloo.
THE GOLDEN BEES by Theo Aronson. 407 pages. New York Graphic Society. $8.95. Socially, the Bonapartes always had a problem: while Napoleon conquered Europe, the family never conquered European ...
Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ parades an empty spectacle for a market uninterested in learning from history. Hollywood’s Ultra Hack returns to hackneyed European history.
But the towering shrewdness with which Napoleon conquered most of Europe and won an unprecedented 90% of his battles is absent from the film.
Imagine how Napoleon Bonaparte would feel if he could somehow learn the definition of “Napoleon complex.” The French commander who conquered half of Europe was subjected to plenty of cracks ...