All nations have figures and episodes in their pasts about which they are divided. For the British, it is undoubtedly the empire. While its defenders say that it civilised so much of the world, its ...

Here's a chance to find out, as the exhibit 'Treasures of Napoleon' opens in New Orleans Napoleon Bonaparte never set foot in Louisiana, the land he sold to the United States in 1803 for $15 million, ...

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