Just down the road from the petite Airbnb in which I’m currently staying on the outskirts of Paris is the home of Alexander ...

What shaped Napoleon? Read on to find out. The second son of Corsican rebels Carlo and Letizia, Napoleone di Buonaparte entered the world on 15 August, 1769, a mere year after the French purchased ...

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Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...

"It was the beginning of the end," Napoleon's former foreign minister Charles Talleyrand said. After Napoleon's lost most of his army in Russia, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden united against ...