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.

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

On Dec. 2, 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of Barney Clark, a retired dentist who lived ...

Not just a port of the strategy classic, Napoleon: Total War for mobile devices puts the complete desktop experience in the palm of players’ hands — including all the DLC — along with extensive ...

The diamond-encrusted jewel, which the 19th-century French emperor wore on his hat, was lost along with other valuables as he retreated from his final battle. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Brussels A ...

GENEVA (AP) — A diamond brooch that French emperor Napoleon lost while fleeing from the Battle of Waterloo in the early 19th century sold for more than 3.5 million Swiss francs (about $4.4 million) at ...

Buyers across Europe have pounced on the Nordic conspiracy thriller, 'Operation Napoleon - Tears of the Wolf,' with Magnolia Pictures taking rights in North America. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

Don't miss the Mobile Release Date Trailer for Total War: Napoleon, a mobile classic strategy game developed by Feral Interactive. Players will engage in massive real-time battles during the age of ...

A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's soldiers during their disastrous 1812 retreat. As French general and ruler ...

Napoleon’s withdrawal from Russia in 1812 was one of history’s most disastrous retreats. New research bolsters the theory that diseases made the calamitous situation even worse. Researchers in France ...

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic analysis revealed pathogens behind paratyphoid and relapsing fever, diseases ...