Napoleon Bonaparte’s career as a conqueror lasted a mere 22 years. It began in 1793, when, as a junior artillery officer, he masterminded the successful French attack on the British garrison ...

Holdfast: Nations At War features 150-player battles, Napoleonic and WW1 settings, naval combat, and extensive class ...

The French Empire’s renewed hopes to break British naval power were dashed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. But even as Napoleon abandoned hope of invading Britain, his Grand Army went on to ...

But Napoleon sent the French army forward in exactly the same way as Junot had attacked in 1808 and it ... with the deliberate object of protecting it against the Napoleonic artillery preparation.

1. Siege of Toulon. In 1793, Napoleon Bonaparte was still a relative nobody, and the French Republic was still fighting for its life. In Toulon, the pro-republic leaders were ousted and royalists ...

Features The Real History of Napoleon’s Greatest Victory Didn’t Happen Like in the Movie. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon features some amazing battle sequences, but it might fall into French ...

There is no evidence that French invaders launched artillery at the pyramids, or that Napoleon’s troops shot the nose off the Sphinx, another piece of popular apocrypha (evidence suggests that ...

Napoleon opens in theaters Wednesday, November 22. Imagine how Napoleon Bonaparte would feel if he could somehow learn the definition of “Napoleon complex.” The French commander who conquered ...