For 200 years, his family hid all links with the revolutionary ... Published in 1791, it was described by Napoleon Bonaparte as the 'most abominable book ever engendered'. He had written The ...

Although Napoleon often confronted Josephine over ... The resentment of the Bonaparte family stemmed primarily from Josephine’s inability to bear them children and, thus, an heir.

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...

Although his family had minor aristocratic roots ... Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne, in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788.

Napoleon Bonaparte faced one of his toughest challenges at the Battle of Rivoli, where the Austrian army made a final attempt ...