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So the Duke of Wellington brought Napoleon’s Hundred Days to an end at the Battle of Waterloo in, according to him, one of ...
Toussaint Louverture was born a slave. He defeated Napoleon and liberated a nation. This is his story. Sharon Stone on the ...
Napoleon’s campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the most costly wars in history. Many soldiers died of diseases.
At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two pathogens that may have contributed to some of the deaths ...
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has taken hydrogen tactical, by adapting fuel cell technology for US Marine Corps ...
Napoleon, director Ridley Scott ‘s 28th feature film (and counting), is not so much an Oscar-baiting historical epic as it is a grand farce about a small man.
In 1807, Napoleon was reportedly stormed by an army of rabbits. Two centuries later, a few hundred meters from his tomb, a colony of rabbits is camped on the lawns of the Invalides... History loves a ...
Napoleon, that once-obscure outsider from Corsica, the artillery officer who – through ruthlessness and cunning – rose to rule France and to conquer much of Europe, died defeated, in exile and ...