Plenty of great war movies also count as epics, with classics like Lawrence of Arabia, War and Peace, and The Great Escape ...

What is believed to be the first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, dating from the Napoleonic Wars, is now open to the ...

From 1808 to 1814, Napoleon’s armies marched into Spain—sparking a savage war of resistance that claimed half a million lives. These are the voices of soldiers who lived, fought, and bled through the ...

Beginning the bombardment in earnest, a red-hot cannonball scored a direct hit on the magazine, igniting all that gunpowder.

Britain and France had gone to war months earlier and Napoleon was fearful of an English spy gaining her trust and getting her to spill secrets. He wrote: “The only nation you should never receive in ...

The producers of the annual Joan of Arc Parade will host a free conference about the historical figure, plus what to know ...

The discovery of a previously unknown letter from the French emperor Napoleon to his favourite sister Pauline, warning her to have nothing to do with the perfidious English, confirms that he was the ...

Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow became a brutal, slow-motion disaster that shattered the largest army Europe had ever seen.

Earlier this year, a Cambridgeshire trust bought the site of where a prisoner of war camp used to be. The public can now get a closer look at the site.

Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake, counselled Napoleon. Yet Russia, with its latest spate of drone ...

I hope that in Poland, the church can find creative ways to align liberal democracy with the values believers bring to the ...

In 'The Grim and The Dark', Napoleon Dynamite actor Jon Heder journeys into the grimdark indie scene beyond the border of ...