The slave is not a slave by choice. He was made a slave by an exploitative system. The poor woman is not poor by choice. She ...

Imagine a world where Corsica—an island known for its beauty and Napoleon's birthplace—becomes the ruler of the entire planet. How could this possibly happen? In this video, we explore the wild ...

An artist's representation of Napoleon's forces trudging through snow during the ruler's ill-fated military campaign of 1812. Historians have long known that as hundreds of thousands of Napoleon ...

Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 was one of history’s most disastrous retreats. New research bolsters the theory that diseases made the calamitous situation even worse. Researchers in France ...

When Napoleon marched into Russia in 1812, he brought with him the largest army Europe had ever seen. When he limped back out, he’d met his match — not in muskets or cannon fire, but in microbes.

But the Russian Empire had been resisting his efforts to cut off all trade with Britain. That summer, he ordered his army, some 600,000 strong, to invade Russia. It would prove to be a terrible ...

In 1812, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led a doomed army on a disastrous retreat from Russia. With food scarce, winter approaching and diseases running rampant, hundreds of thousands of ...

On June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led a massive army of over 600,000 troops across the Niemen River in present-day Lithuania in what has become known as his Russian Campaign. His goal was to get ...

In 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia with one of the largest armies in history—the “Grande Armée” of about half a million men. But when they were forced to retreat, harsh winter conditions, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...