Napoleon’s mighty empire was drained by a war he couldn’t win. Discover how the Peninsular War became his ultimate ‘bleeding ulcer’ and cost him 250,000 troops.

KERATRAUNT: It’s a war of atrocities ... Thousands died, but there was no decisive victory. Napoleon would keep his armies in Spain for five years, unable to break the will of the Spanish ...

His soldiers mourned; Napoleon wept openly. He wrote to Lannes' widow: "I [have lost] the most distinguished general in my army, my companion in arms for sixteen years, and… my best friend." ...

Napoleon lost everything because of a trade war. His tale holds lessons and warnings ... modern economics (and whose tricentennial is this year). Napoleon nevertheless rejected Smith’s vision ...

War broke out between Britain and France in ... as the 'French Revolutionary Wars' then the 'Napoleonic Wars'. In 1804 Napoleon, Emperor of France, made slavery legal again in the French colonies.