The years from 1812 to 1821 mark the dramatic decline and eventual fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. This video explores the critical period starting with the disastrous Russian campaign of ...

Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was meant to crush resistance, ... Epic History. The Russian Campaign – How Napoleon’s Empire Began to Crumble. Posted: June 19, 2025 | Last updated: June 19, 2025.

Never in living memory had so large an army been assembled — Italians, Poles, German, French — more than 600,000 men from every corner of his empire. Napoleon prophesied the war would be over ...

The Dec. 2, 1804 coronation of Napoleon and Josephine was immortalized by Jacques-Louis David and became the greatest celebration of the newly minted Empire style.

As part of the general settlement of European affairs after Napoleon's abdication in April of 1814, he was granted the right to select among the islands of Corsica, Corfu, and Elba as a place of exile ...

At its height, the Napoleonic empire stretched across most of Western Europe and numbered 40 million people. But his continuing thirst for power also sowed the seeds of his downfall.

Illustration by Tim O’Brien "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815.

Napoleon memorabilia regularly comes up for sale at auction in France in a flourishing trade marked by intense interest from collectors. Two pistols that he once intended to use to kill himself ...

Sotheby’s Paris to Auction an Intimate Inventory of Napoleon’s Reign With battle relics, love letters and one very famous bicorne hat, Pierre-Jean Chalençon's one-of-a-kind trove of ...