Once Europe's biggest problem, Napoleon Bonaparte is still posing a dilemma for France, 200 years after his death in exile on the Atlantic island of St Helena. Napoleon was a brilliant military ...

By Nick Sundin – The United Kingdom commemorated in June 2015 the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, marking the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte ... of Napoleon’s death in 1821, the overseas ...

Napoleon Bonaparte hoped to follow up his brilliant victories over Austria and Prussia with another decisive victory over the ...

The mask has been restored ahead of Apsley House's reopening later this month A death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte has been cleaned and conserved to mark the 200th anniversary of the French emperor ...

millions of people starved to death and those who opposed him were imprisoned or killed. The name also evokes the French military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte (1776-1821), who seized power after the ...

It’s just a question of enthusiasm, everyone throws themselves into it, everyone risked death. With his men ... The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny.