and to quarter the palmetto of Carolina with the lilies of France. Quantities of rifled cannon and shells are sent to New-Orleans and Pensacola in French bottoms; but LOUIS NAPOLEON is a great ...

The desire to be vindicated is as old as history itself because history cannot help but create winners and losers; history ...

Once Europe's biggest problem, Napoleon Bonaparte is still posing a dilemma for France, 200 years after his death in exile on the Atlantic island of St Helena. Napoleon was a brilliant military ...

During the last months of 1814, Napoleon grew bored playing at Emperor of Elba. He never took his eye off France, where the Allies had made the mistake of restoring an eager but weak Bourbon king ...

Spain, alarmed at France's aggression, began to question their alliance with Napoleon. By 1808, Napoleon had installed his brother Joseph as the king of Spain and sent 118,000 soldiers across into ...