The French Emperor is famous for a lot of things, but this lasting myth about Napoleon has shaped the way we see him through ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, France’s famed military commander and emperor, formally gave up his throne. Under the Treaty of ...

"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

When discussing American military spending and defense industrial base policy in the context of great power competition with ...

Britain's credibility as a debtor was fundamental to its ability to finance the fight against Revolutionary, and later Napoleonic France. The scale and length of the war demanded that it sustain ...