A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

Napoleon had never lost a major battle—until now. Overconfidence and a brutal fight along the Danube led to his first ...

But the people of Bavaria, who had profited from Napoleon's earlier defeat of Austria, rallied once again around Napoleon as he assembled his troops for battle. "Austria wants to get slapped ...

But they wouldn't remain neutral for long — all of Europe smelled blood with Napoleon's defeat. "My star was fading," Napoleon said. "I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reminded his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron of how Napoleon Bonaparte's 1812 ...

Yet this movie almost certainly will overlook a key detail: The fascinating Frenchman’s defeat was less about battlefields than it was about economics. Napoleon lost everything because of a ...

On March 1, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor who had been defeated a year earlier, returned to France after a year of exile. Historian John Schmidt recalls this moment in history which ...

Just a year later, Napoleon secretly returned to France to stage a coup and seize power, leaving his savant squad and 30,000 troops behind. They stayed until defeat forced them to retreat in 1801.

TASS/. Members of Hungary’s Forum for Peace civil organizations asked the French ambassador in Budapest to remind French President Emmanuel Macron about the defeat of Napoleon’s army after its ...