The quote of the day, attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, defines courage not as having strength, but as continuing forward ...

This Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ 1804 portrait of Napoleon shows him as a civilian officer instead of an invading hero. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, France “Ah, if it were only to be done over ...

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Ajaccio, the capital of the island of ...

Even though Napoleon Bonaparte never made it to New Orleans, he will be here in spirit — or at least in related objets d’art — on Aug. 15, when M.S. Rau Antiques marks Napoleon’s 250th birthday with a ...

Military genius or a war-obsessed tyrant? Few readers of history are neutral about the dynamic Frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte, whose name is reflexively attached to the incessant wars that wasted Europe ...

NAPOLEON: A Political Life. By Steven Englund. Scribner, 592 pp. $35. FEW aspects of Napoleon Bonaparte's life have gone unexplored. Much has been written about his wars, of course. His loves. His ...

‘From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step,” Napoleon quipped when he reached Warsaw on Dec. 10, 1812, in retreat from snowy Moscow and the biggest military fiasco of his career. Adam ...

Here's a chance to find out, as the exhibit 'Treasures of Napoleon' opens in New Orleans Napoleon Bonaparte never set foot in Louisiana, the land he sold to the United States in 1803 for $15 million, ...

Master of war. Reformer. Great leader. “The Devil’s Favorite.” “Little Corporal.” Get to know the many sides of Napoleon Bonaparte during the James Smith Noel Collection’s commemorative event series.

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of history's most controversial figures and has been the focus of several films and television series, having even lampooned in children's cartoons for almost a century.

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