France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to ...

In 1799, the young French Republic faced war with a coalition of European enemies, and an unpopular and corrupt government at ...

Several influential historical figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Benazir Bhutto, and the Dalai Lama, experienced exile ...

Against all odds and countless financial challenges, Joan Laporta is still standing, smiling, as Barcelona's club president. Underestimate him, and the club, at your peril.

While he never officially ranked the seven commanders, Napoleon himself, along with many other historians, seemed to consider Alexander the best. "I place Alexander in the first rank," Napoleon ...

If it could happen in France, it could happen anywhere. Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne, in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788. From the ...