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 ...

Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean, was ruled by the Italian city-state of Pisa, and later by Genoa, ... The beloved French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was born here in 1769.

Napoleon Bonaparte rose from a family of minor nobles on the French island of Corsica to become ruler of much of continental Europe. After his 1815 defeat at the Battle of Waterloo (in what is now ...

NapoleoN Buonaparte was born on Aug. 15, 1769, in Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica to the wealthy family of Carlo and Marie Letizia Buonaparte. He later adopted a French spelling of his ...

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.

Edward Harper is an author and former reporter living in Virginia BASTIA, Corsica — I stood on the top deck of the ferry Napoleon Bonaparte, looking down on the wine-dark sea that separates ...

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 ...