Napoleon Bonaparte sought to reinstate slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), but he faced an unexpected and formidable opponent: Toussaint Louverture. Born a slave, Louverture led ...

The resentment of the Bonaparte family stemmed primarily ... Within a year, Marie-Louise gave birth to an heir, Napoleon II, who received the title king of Rome. Still, Napoleon kept his promise ...

General Napoleon Bonaparte is remembered as a crusader, tyrant, and initiator of a series of wars. But one of his lesser-known offenses — abandoning a crew of scholars and scientists in Egypt ...

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...

The name also evokes the French military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte (1776-1821), who seized power after the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor and ruled France until 1815. Napoleon himself ...