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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bonaparte was once a hair’s breadth from enrolling into Russian service. If not for his arrogance, history could have turned out totally differently. In 1788 in Florence, a Russian Lieutenant-General, ...
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Was Napoleon actually attacked by rabbits?
One of history's greatest military commanders—the man who conquered most of Europe, who survived countless battles and ...
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 ...
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