Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy (Palgrave, 2018) Jeremy Black, The Battle of Waterloo: A New History ...

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 ...

The truth about Napoleon and Josephine’s marriage, divorce, and lasting legacy The Bonaparte marriage, not quite explained by Ridley Scott’s new movie.

Over 600,000 men marched east—few returned. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia was meant to crush resistance, but instead, it shattered the Grande Armée.

The new Empire style was a triumph in Paris − immortalized in the Arc de Triomphe, La Madeleine, and Place Vendome with the Napoleon Column in the center – and spread throughout Europe ...

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 ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and was specially ordered for the personal use by the French emperor will be auctioned in Paris next month, an auction house said. Napoleon ordered the ...

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.

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.