A memorial to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is pictured at the Casone Square in his birth city of Ajaccio, Corsica, on March 15, 2021. (Photo by PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP) Think of the ...
James Quinn’s lucid, authoritative and brilliantly concise study of the 1798 Rebellion contains a passage that answers Napoleon’s questions. A larger French expeditionary force might well have ...
May 5th marks 200 years since the death of Napoleon Bonaparte: France's Emperor, military genius, generally revered as a national hero. But Clovis Etchiandas, a tour guide, won't be celebrating those ...
Looks like Napoleon Bonaparte now has his very own cruise. Hot spots from the life of the cocky Corsican who almost conquered Europe (the Duke of Wellington sends his regards) are on the manifest on ...
I recently finished reading Napoleon Bonaparte England's Prisoner:The Emperor in Exile: 1816 -21, by Frank Giles, which I thoroughly enjoyed. At the end of it I was feeling pity for Napoleon who has ...
The quote of the day, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, defines courage not as having strength, but as continuing forward ...
In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo said of the Battle of Waterloo that "an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World." Indeed, bad weather caused by ...