It is up to me to give them an example." The battle at Lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny. "From that moment," he said, "I foresaw what I might be. Already I felt the ...

France was still at war with Great Britain, and Bonaparte hoped to disrupt British ... YOUSSEF: They weren’t afraid of Napoleon at all. The Mamelukes were brought up with fierce principles ...

It is perhaps no surprise that having earned his first commission in the military as an artillery officer in 1785, Napoleon Bonaparte depended ... apparent during the War of the Austrian ...

Bonaparte's Peninsular War will take you ... War was one of the longest and most drawn-out campaigns of the Napoleonic War; a piece of Imperial regime change designed to close off the last ...

"I admire the fine campaign of Caesar in Africa," Bourriene quoted Napoleon as saying. Shortly after that, he fought a quick war in Anatolia — in present day Turkey — and made quick work of ...

Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the great powers, led the struggle against Napoleon as a war of national liberation. Using German, French, British, ...

Once Europe's biggest problem, Napoleon Bonaparte is still posing a dilemma ... that accepted his parents as refugees after the Vietnam War. "It was disturbing to learn about Napoleon in school ...

Napoleon's favourite general has been formally identified after DNA tests on a one-legged skeleton found under a dance floor in western Russia. Analysis confirmed that the bones belonged to ...

This isn’t to say the new movie has similar direction to Coppola. It looks and feels just like a Ridley Scott picture. But ...

Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars covers the international foreign political ... including with France's client states and the role of the Bonaparte family in the Empire.