After storming Egypt and dreaming of empire, Napoleon faced a crushing test at Aboukir. What followed was a brutal clash that nearly unraveled his entire campaign ...

In the shadow of the Great Pyramids, Napoleon clashed with the Mamluks in a brutal battle for control of Egypt—and his dream of empire ...

In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

When Napoleon’s once invincible army limped out of Russia in winter 1812, frostbite and hunger were merely half the story.

Ancient DNA from Napoleon’s soldiers reveals enteric and relapsing fevers - not typhus - as key killers during the army’s ...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s Grande Armée met its most devastating enemy—not the Russian army, but biology itself. As ...

By 1812, Napoleon was all powerful. Nearly all of Europe was under his control. He had succeeded in forbidding most of the continent from trading with Britain in an effort to bring the island nation ...

(CNN) — Precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum Sunday include an emerald necklace set among more than 1,000 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other treasures of ...

History is catching up with the United States. The center of the most globe-spanning empire in history, empire is now coming home to its own shores. The scenes of troops in the streets, with people ...