James Quinn’s lucid, authoritative and brilliantly concise study of the 1798 Rebellion contains a passage that answers ...

JAMES FORREST has been around for so long now that it is almost easy to take him for granted. The winger is still going ...

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Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A long while before Indiana Jones was depicted discovering the Ark of the Covenant in Cairo in that famous franchise, a young, ambitious, French soldier by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt ...

Leading Icelandic production company Glassriver will be developing a TV series based on the "Konrad" book series. This marks the first TV series adaptation of Indriðason’s work, which comprises the ...

What better way to announce the publication of my new book, “13 Notes from Napoleon, Iowa: Musings on the Edge of the French Empire,” than on Napoleon’s birthday? Born on Aug. 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on ...

He was a French dictator—the original short king. Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait ...

When Napoleon’s half-million-strong army retreated from Russia in 1812, around half the men were wiped out by disease, starvation and the extreme cold. Now, state-of-the-art DNA analysis has revealed ...

Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt led to a decisive showdown at Aboukir in 1799. Outnumbered but determined, his army faced off against the Ottomans in a battle that would define the campaign. Donald Trump ...