In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire ... Among their ranks were legendary figures such as Marshals Lannes, Soult, Davout and Massena, but also much less well know figures like ...

Napoleon saw that these laws changed France forever. His personal copy of them in print has just been sold. Find out more ...

presenting a pretty simplistic portrait of one of historys most complex figures, but the acting is brilliant, particularly by Vanessa Kirby. Not everything about Napoleon works, but its comic ...

Can a public figure be a hero AND a tyrant? Students debate this question by researching Napoleon's life and writing about his career from a variety of perspectives in a circa-1815 "newspaper." ...

So the Russians figure, boy, we’ve got it made, we’ve got the best position, in the south. The French have very few troops. We can attack the south and roll up the whole French army. Napoleon ...

He is a pop culture figure. He is a product of the revolution, and he's also the undoing of the revolution because he rides this wave of the revolution into power like Napoleon. And then he ...

IT is an age of "revelations," of intimate biography, when no historical figure is a hero to any fair ... even more satisfactorily. Ludwig's "Napoleon" is in the realistic and intimate vein ...