Two months before Napoleon's historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains ...

In February 2025 social media posts, U.S. President Donald Trump shared this quote usually attributed to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." ...

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 ...

"Austria wants to get slapped; she shall have it," Napoleon boasted. "If the Emperor Francis attempts any hostile move, he will soon have ceased to reign." Two weeks later, Napoleon battered the ...

"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 ...

Some think that Napoleon is just a brandy!” But the consul, who is finishing a 12-volume series on the last years of the emperor’s life, adds: “Napoleon was many things—general ...

COMPIEGNE, 24 No'bre, 1861. MONSIEUR, J'ai iu avec le plus vif interet le discours que vous avez pronounce au diner auquel assistait S.A.I. le Prince NAPOLEON et dont vous in'avez fait l'envoi.

A similar recollection was recorded by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases in Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon (Vol. II) which has Napoleon stating “Poss ...

The Ephemeral Habsburg Empire in Mexico. In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maxi ...

Clive Revill, a prolific stage and screen actor known to "Star Wars" fans as the original voice of the iconic villain Emperor Palpatine, has died, according to reports. He was 94. The actor's ...

This little work, composed when the former Emperor was in exile on St. Helena, and Englished by retired engineer and British military officer Maguire, offers some interesting criticism of Caesar’s ...