Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of the First Republic of France, had an eye on conquering Great Britain, assembling as many as 200,000 soldiers near Boulogne in a planned crossing of the English ...

Hundreds of thousands of his soldiers froze to death in the terrible Russian winter campaign of 1812. Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba, and made one more grasp at power before being ...

The trailer concludes with Napoleon lording over a bloody, wintry assault, bombarding soldiers as they fall through thin ice. “I’m the first to admit when I make a mistake,” he says in the ...

If Napoleon’s career teaches one thing, it is what the Founding Fathers knew: that no individual — no matter how brilliant — can be entrusted with absolute power. Those in search of soldier ...

Joaquin Phoenix's quirky performance is the highlight Napoleon manages a win at the Battle of Austerlitz, another impressive set piece, with cannons breaking the ice Russian and Austrian soldiers ...

I am merely a soldier.” Fouche, before departing, asks the solder’s name. “My name is Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte.” Just like James Bond. “I’ll try to remember,” Fouche says ...

Napoleon was a 26-year-old soldier from the island of Corsica and Josephine was a 32-year-old widowed courtesan and single mother from Martinique. “They were upstarts who came together and ...

Ridley Scott is returning to theaters this month with the release of the historical drama “Napoleon,” starring Joaquin Phoenix as the infamous French emperor and Vanessa Kirby as his wife ...

a Napoleon expert who has published five books on the Corsican soldier who seized power after the French Revolution, crowned himself emperor and proceeded to conquer — and later lose — much of ...