There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...
Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...
proclaiming a War of German Liberation. But the people of Bavaria, who had profited from Napoleon's earlier defeat of Austria, rallied once again around Napoleon as he assembled his troops for battle.
This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...
The picture illustrates the kind of life led by French prisoners of war once they had been sent to England following capture in the Napoleonic wars. Some of them were kept under guard in old navy ...
The bodies of French and Russian soldiers who died during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow have been laid to rest at a ceremony in western Russia. Along with the 120 soldiers, three women and three ...
The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity cleaned their headstones as part of its work to commemorate those who fought during the period. It is believed the four men were higher ranking ...