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 ...

sending the retreating Russian and Austrian soldiers to a cold, wet grave. Later in the Napoleonic Wars, and in the movie, the overreaching Napoleon meets his Waterloo at Waterloo (no better place ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The army that gathered with Napoleon was a force of roughly 227,000 soldiers. The rest of the army was split across the Russian border, with a French reserve of 225,000 waiting behind the lines.

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 ...

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 ...