From the battlefield to the highest rank in the French Empire, Napoleon’s Marshals were legendary leaders. Handpicked for their courage, skill, and loyalty, these generals ...

Bessières, Macdonald, and Masséna—three of Napoleon’s most renowned marshals. Each played a crucial role in shaping the empire, from Masséna’s brilliance in battle to Macdonald’s loyalty and Bessières ...

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 ...