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Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...
French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte was riding high as he brokered peace with England for the first time in a decade, retook ...
Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic.
A new Apple TV+ period drama, 'Careme', argues that Antonin Careme, who has been dead since the 1830s, was the very first ...
Vladimir Putin marked 25 years as Russia's leader, rising from an obscure ex-KGB colonel to a dominant political figure. He ...
But in the TV version, they meet in the 1790s, when Napoleon – then only First Consul – almost dies as a result of an overexuberant bout of shagging. Luckily, Napoleon’s quick-witted black servant ...
"Bonaparte, then First Consul, ordered the sword between 1802 and 1803 from ... his time," Hôtel Drouot stated in a press release on Friday. After becoming Emperor, Napoleon "kept the sword until the ...