PARIS (WHTM) — Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had a bit of a problem. Once upon a time, specifically in the mid 1700s, France was the biggest European presence in what would eventually become the United ...

It was 240 years ago on Feb. 6, 1785, that Elizabeth “Betsy” Patterson Bonaparte was born in Baltimore. Of all the characters who took to the historical stages of Carroll County and Maryland, you will ...

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 ...

Napoleon’s Wars: An International History, 1803–1815, by Charles Esdaile (Viking, 656 pp., $35) For all his renown, Napoleon Bonaparte remains an elusive figure with a contested legacy. Admirers view ...