Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army ...

The weight of Napoleon III's name hung over him for his entire life. Convinced he was heir to his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte's ...

The auction — aiming to make in excess of 7 million euros ($7.5 million) — is a biography in objects. The centerpiece is Napoleon’s iconic bicorne hat, the black felt chapeau he wore in battle — with ...

Officers typically wore their bicornes front to back. Napoleon, however, wore his in battle with the wings parallel to his shoulders. Its estimate is €500,000 – €800,000 ($571,167 - $913,867).

Napoleon made a bold return from exile in 1815 only to lose his last shot at empire in a crushing defeat delivered by the Duke of Wellington and the combined forces of Europe.

Never a member of the Continental System and France’s greatest adversary during the Napoleonic period, Britain, having reconciled with France after the fall of Napoleon in 1815, still felt ...

LIFESTYLE Napoleon conquered Europe, I conquered my day—Thanks to coffee! September 30, 2024, 3:43 PM IST Ravi Singh in One must imagine Sisyphus happy, Lifestyle, TOI Linkedin Ravi Singh ...

Charlemagne and Napoleon brough about the brief periods of the greatest post-Roman Empire unification of Europe, a continent that has been the battleground of kingdoms and empires for millennia ...

Charlemagne and Napoleon brough about the brief periods of the greatest post-Roman Empire unification of Europe, a continent that has been the battleground of kingdoms and empires for millennia.

Professor Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books about revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, including a two-volume ...