Napoleon Bonaparte launched the most audacious campaign of his career. With the most enormous army ever assembled in Europe, ...
"Military science," Napoleon was quoted as saying by Madame de Remusat, "consists in calculating all the chances accurately in the first place, and then in giving accident exactly, almost ...
In honor of the romantic holiday, we've decided to crown the French military and political leader Napoléon Bonaparte's letters ... check out "The Letters of Napoleon to Josephine." ...
He served for the army he wanted to overthrow In order ... Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne, in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788.
Napoleon himself recognizes their courage ... The Battle of the Pyramids was over in an hour. Three days later, Bonaparte led his army into Cairo. "I was full of dreams," he said.
Two pistols owned by the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, with which he once intended ... 1814 after the defeat of his army by foreign forces meant he had to give up power.
Bonaparte was not only a warrior ... Although the Egyptian campaign was a military disaster, Napoleon was able to exploit the French people's fascination with the mysterious country to his ...
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army marched into Martigny on their way to northern Italy. There, the French forces surprised and defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Marengo.
Like a lightning bolt falling from the heavens, Napoleon Bonaparte's Army of the Reserve descended out of the Alps upon the plains of Piedmont in late May of 1800 and into the annals of glory.