After returning from his Egyptian campaign, Napoleon found France broken and desperate. Within weeks, he led a coup that dismantled the Directory and replaced it with the Consulate, placing himself at ...

With deception and timing, Napoleon shattered two empires in a single day. Austerlitz became the gold standard of military genius.

Napoleon Bonaparte sometimes wondered if he should have done more to support Wolfe Tone’s United Irishmen in 1798. During his exile on St Helena, the deposed emperor fantasised about an alternative ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect the recent news event of a fire at the iconic landmark. It was originally published in the May/June 2017 issue of National Geographic History Magazine.

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for the ...