Why Napoleon Probably Should Have Just Stayed in Exile the First Time

For the man with history’s first recorded Napoleon complex, it must have been the consummate insult. After Napoleon Bonaparte ...

Quote of the day by Napoleon Bonaparte, "What is history but a fable agreed upon. Yet it shapes how nations remember themselves."

Quote of the day by Napoleon Bonaparte: More than 200 years after his rule, the Napoleon Bonaparte quote on history — “history is a fable agreed upon” — still dominates global search trends around ...
The Harvard Crimson

‘Napoleon’ Review: History with a Twist

In the first act of Ridley Scott’s newest film, “Napoleon,” the French general does something strangely anti-historical: fire a cannon at the tip of the Great Pyramids. In the next scene, he stands on ...
Yahoo

Napoleon's long and costly invasion of Russia was one of the deadliest military operations in history

When Russia resumed trading with England, Napoleon prepared to invade Russia. Napoleon amassed an army of 600,000, the largest army Europe had ever seen. After a failed invasion of Moscow, the French ...
The Lima News

Holy Cow! History: The Bonapartes’ gifts to your kitchen

The recent feature film “Napoleon” has people taking a fresh look at The Little Corporal and his namesake nephew. Napoleon Bonaparte left the world a boatload of legacies. He radically revolutionized ...
France 24

For American Napoleon, there's a future after Waterloo

He led the Grande Armée through the Brandenburg Gate and in the Pyrrhic victory at Borodino. Now, New York-born Napoleon says it's time he and his men face their Waterloo. Not that he expects to win ...