The Napoleonic Empire was crucial in the formation of modern Europe. Much of Europe was dominated by the Napoleonic Empire and its impact was felt across the continent and in parts of the non-European ...

At its peak in the late 1200s, the empire stretched thousands of miles ... from Ernest Hemingway to “Napoleon Dynamite.” Hemingway, the state’s most celebrated resident, wrote part of ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

But for Napoleon, the Tilsit peace seemed to be his finest moment - for him and for his Empire. He came back to Paris in 1807 to a huge celebration. France rejoiced at the signing of the treaty ...

SOKHOLOV: The Russian army starts to concentrate its forces on the borders ... French — more than 600,000 men from every corner of his empire. Napoleon prophesied the war would be over in ...

This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...

Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture. Leading scholars from around the globe show how the ...

lead to the establishment of a strong global empire? Discover the different tactics available to Wellington and Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo - and try putting them into practice. The French ...

Not that I don’t sympathize with the impossible task of editing a 4 hour 10 minute historical satire of Napoleon down to just a little more than half its length, when it contains half a dozen ...

The Perseid meteor shower is reaching its peak and experts have explained the best time and which direction to look. As many ...