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Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army ...
A new report reveals that 10 Napoleonic soldiers attacked by Spanish guerrillas were not sent to prison, as previously believed, but killed ...
Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the Archduke Rudolph (along with the entire nobility and their entourages) in anticipation of ...
From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...
From fighting Napoleon at sea to founding farmland in Upper Canada, Jonathan Petch's remarkable journey is etched into the very logs of his historic family home that is now preserved in Aurora ...
At a different Parisian auction in late May, one of Napoleon’s sabres sold for 4.6 million euros, coming close to a new record price for a Napoleonic artefact.
French general Napoleon Bonaparte's relics are on display in Paris ahead of an iconic auction, which experts claim will be one of the biggest in ages.
PARIS — After the Hollywood epic “Napoleon” exposed the legendary emperor to a new generation two years ago, over 100 relics — which shaped empires, broke hearts and spawned centuries of fascination — ...
Napoleon may have gifted this bicorne hat to the loyal General Mouton. Sotheby's A trove of objects that portray Napoleon Bonaparte at his most powerful—and his most personal—sold for a ...
After the Hollywood epic “Napoleon” exposed the legendary emperor to a new generation two years ago, over 100 relics — which shaped empires, broke hearts and spawned centuries of fascination ...