Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

In 1809, as Napoleon fought the Austrians at Wagram, the war in Spain and Portugal continued to rage. The French had ...

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 ...

At Bailén Napoleon's Empire suffered its first major defeat, and though Napoleon himself then arrived in Spain to reassert French military dominance, he could not prevent the escape of Sir John ...

Foreigners in France are sometimes warned about the persistence of the 'Napoleonic code'. The Local untangles what the ...

But for Napoleon, the Tilsit peace seemed to be his finest moment - for him and for his Empire. He came back to Paris in 1807 to a huge celebration. France rejoiced at the signing of the treaty ...

Napoleon passed the sabre on to his close ally Emmanuel de Grouchy, whom the French emperor named his last marshal of the empire. The sword has been in Grouchy's family since 1815, the year of ...

A rare sword commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte for his personal use will be auctioned in Paris on May 22, according to the Giquello auction house.The historic sabre, ordered by the French emperor in ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor is to be auctioned in ...