For the man with history’s first recorded Napoleon complex, it must have been the consummate insult. After Napoleon Bonaparte’s disastrous campaign in Russia ended in defeat, he was forced into exile ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte was banished in 1815, the Observer published a guide to the remote island – and the luxurious fixtures and fittings ordered for the exiled ruler On 15 October 1815, exiled from ...

As British, Austrian, Russian, and Austrian forces once again came together to stop Napoleon in 1815, Napoleon gathered forces to rebuild his empire. His final campaigns, fought in Belgium, culminated ...

A diamond brooch owned and abandoned by Napoleon Bonaparte after the Battle of Waterloo will go up for auction for the first time. The brooch, made of nearly 100 diamonds, was left behind after the ...

Bell teaches History at Princeton, and is the author of Napoleon: A Concise Biography On December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was preparing to crown himself Emperor of the French in Notre Dame ...

As museums encounter increasing claims on their collections, experts say much of the debate hearkens back to 1815, when the Louvre was forced to surrender the spoils of war. By Nina Siegal In ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory for his French Empire and challenging the supremacy of Britain on the seas. From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic Wars ...

After carefully researching Bonaparte's time in exile, painter Charles de Steuben depicted Napoleon's deathbed and the witnesses to his dying moments in May 1821. “The death of Napoleon” (1828) by ...