"Military science," Napoleon was quoted as saying by Madame de Remusat, "consists in calculating all the chances accurately in the first place, and then in giving accident exactly, almost ...

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

In honor of the romantic holiday, we've decided to crown the French military and political leader Napoléon Bonaparte's letters ... check out "The Letters of Napoleon to Josephine." ...

especially its army. Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2, 1804, turning the French Republic into the French Empire, with a Bonaparte line of succession. He felt that this provision for ...

Bonaparte was not only a warrior ... Although the Egyptian campaign was a military disaster, Napoleon was able to exploit the French people's fascination with the mysterious country to his ...

Napoleon himself recognizes their courage ... The Battle of the Pyramids was over in an hour. Three days later, Bonaparte led his army into Cairo. "I was full of dreams," he said.

He served for the army he wanted to overthrow In order ... Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne, in the Cote-d'Or department in the Burgundy region of eastern France, 1788.

Neither pro- nor anti-Bonaparte, Riley addresses Napoleon's successes and failures even-handedly ... as he found himself unable to adapt to changing diplomatic and military conditions, particularly as ...

Clausewitz gives the reader valuable insights into his own military thought and analytical technique, as well as Bonaparte's, while sweeping away some of the mythic lore that has adhered to the ...

Likely removed by Nazi researchers, the scrap of fabric is a small but crucial part of the tattered tapestry’s nearly 1,000-year history On This Day in History When the blaze in Moscow subsided ...