The warship gangway that Napoleon Bonaparte stood on to surrender to the British Navy following the Battle of Waterloo is set to fetch £60,000 at auction. Described as a 'national treasure marking the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army veterans and archeologists dig as part of archaeological research campaign called "Waterloo Uncovered" in Waterloo WATERLOO, ...

LIGNY, Belgium – Napoleon Bonaparte, also known as Frank Samson, a pudgy Paris lawyer who likes wearing gold braided uniforms and a black bicorne hat, won his last battle on Sunday in southern Belgium ...

In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo said of the Battle of Waterloo that "an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World." Indeed, bad weather caused by ...

Two centuries ago this week, a coalition of European forces defeated Napoleon in an epic battle outside the city of Brussels. The continent is united these days, but the Battle of Waterloo still has ...

Napoleon Bonaparte may have been “robbed of victory” at Waterloo – depending on who you ask – but that defeat, catastrophic as it was, did not rob him of glory. In the bicentenary year of his death, ...

A hat said to be worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo sold for more than $400,000 at an auction in Lyon, France. The De Baecque auction house told CNN the buyer is a European collector ...

WATERLOO, Belgium, July 17 (Reuters) - A cannonball discovered this week by archaeologists provides a further indication of how close Napoleon Bonaparte came to winning the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.