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 ...

A diamond jewel owned and abandoned by Napoleon Bonaparte after the Battle of Waterloo will go up for auction for the first ...

A hat believed to have been worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo has sold for $325,000 at auction, according to the BBC. It had been expected to sell for less than $50,000.

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 ...

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 ...

A diamond brooch once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte is set to be auctioned for the first time. The historic jewel, comprising ...

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 cannonball discovered this week by archaeologists provides a further indication of how close Napoleon Bonaparte came to winning the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The 3 kg (6-pound), rusty cannonball ...

His invasion of Russia was a bad idea anyway, but two ruthless pathogens that ripped through Bonparte’s army probably didn’t ...

A lucky house clearer who found a lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair in a gold locket in a condemned property is celebrating today after it sold for £9,000. The snip of greying hair was taken from the ...