Napoleon Bonaparte was, arguably, the greatest general of all time. And we mean that an actual statistician went full “Moneyball” on military history and actually argued that Napoleon Bonaparte is the ...

Napoleon's campaign against the Russian Empire was one of the most costly wars in history. Many soldiers died of diseases.

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two ...

In 1807, Napoleon was reportedly stormed by an army of rabbits. Two centuries later, a few hundred meters from his tomb, a colony of rabbits is camped on the lawns of the Invalides... History loves a ...

When Napoleon marched his Grand Army of 600,000 troops into Russia in 1812, he commanded one of the largest fighting forces ...

After extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers they instead found evidence the men suffered from a ...

Napoleon's supposedly short stature made him the mockery of Europe and inspired a stigma that persists today. Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait in his coronation robes.

Napoleon didn’t start off as royalty, but rather as a French army officer from a minor Italian noble family from Corsica. But he was a voracious reader and brilliant military strategist, which ...

‘Napoleon’ Review: Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix Deliver a Film That Works Better as a Comedy Than a Historical Epic Those worried about a glorification of the dictator needn't have feared.