Bessières, Macdonald, and Masséna—three of Napoleon’s most renowned marshals. Each played a crucial role in shaping the ...

General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader, tyrant, and initiator of a series of wars. But one of his lesser-known offenses — abandoning a crew of scholars and scientists in Egypt ...

who insisted on calling Napoleon General Bonaparte. Only one weapon was left him — words. With words, he would launch his last campaign. Day after day, he dictated his memoirs, forging the story ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...

The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, partakes of the spirit of the times. The ...

In less than six weeks, the French reached the Danube, catching the Austrian army of General Karl Mack by surprise. While his enemy wavered, Napoleon struck the decisive blow. ELTING: He comes ...

Before his exile, return, and then ultimate defeat in 1815, Napoleon was a brilliant general who understood the dynamics of leading a large group to victory. "The moral is to the physical as three ...