(His plans for a full book on the island country never came ... Ludwig van Beethoven greatly admired the general, even into Napoleon’s early years as First Consul after overthrowing the existing ...

Last fortnight, Frederick Britten Austin, an oldtime romancer, added to the 40,000-odd books that have been written about Napoleon a volume ... In his 50 years Frederick Britten Austin has ...

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte ... the dismay and fear provoked by this news. Napoleon’s banishment the year before had been achieved after years of momentous and costly battles on ...

ON THE strength of a military reputation and by a show of military force Napoleon achieved supreme ... The defeats they had suffered during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars at ...

The movie goes deep into their love story: his letters, her affairs, his affairs, and ultimately their very strange divorce ceremony, necessary because Josephine — six years older than Napoleon ...

Napoleon remains a global cultural icon 250 years after his birth in Ajaccio ... It is no surprise that there are thousands of history books and essays about Napoleon as well as a vast number ...