Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte – the outsider whose meteoric rise heralded France's conquest of Europe – is remembered as both a hero and tyrant. To his supporters, he was a ...

According to the survey, commissioned by the UK’s National Army Museum, just under half of Britons associate the name “Waterloo” with the eponymous Abba song. The Swedish band’s iconic hit compares a ...

In the second part of our guide to the Battle of Waterloo, fought exactly 200 years ago, we look at the role played by faulty maps, Scottish cavalry – and 15,000 Soviet actors – in Napoleon’s demise.