An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleone Buonaparte in Ajaccio, on the French island of Corsica, on August 15, 1769. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and ...

Soon we would return to our ship, CroisiEurope’s compact 130-passenger La Belle des Océans, docked in the island’s capital, Ajaccio (the birthplace of Corsica’s most famous son, Napoleon ...

Napoleon I. | Hulton Archive/GettyImages. Napoleon was born into a family of minor nobility on Corsica­—a large island off the coast of Italy—in 1769, a year after it became a French territory.

A rriving late in Ajaccio, Corsica, at Aéroport Napoleon Bonaparte, I take a taxi to Hotel Napoleon.It’s a block south of the main thoroughfare, Cours Napoleon, where next morning I bask in the ...

Pope Francis will become the first pope to visit Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, when he makes a daytrip to the French island Dec. 15. The pope will make the roughly one-hour flight ...

The First Rise and Fall. Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte possessed furious intelligence and relentless ambition. As a young soldier, he supported the radical ideals of ...

The pope celebrated Mass beneath a looming statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor whose armies in 1808 annexed the papal states and imprisoned two of Francis’ predecessors — Popes ...