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A diamond brooch that French emperor Napoleon lost while fleeing from the Battle of Waterloo in the early 19th century sold for more than 3.5 million Swiss francs (about $4.4 million) at a Geneva ...

An illustration of the burning of Washington, DC, from the 1816 book, The History of England, from the Earliest Periods, Volume 1. Wikimedia Commons If you are a history geek who loves to learn about ...

Following his defeat in the giant Battle of Leipzig (Oct 1813), Napoleon's final defeat seemed only a matter of time. But when Coalition armies crossed the Rhine and invaded France, Napoleon - ...

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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police have arrested a man accused of murder in a Napoleon Avenue shooting Wednesday. Billy Dietrich, 48, was booked into the Orleans Justice Center on a count of ...

As Napoleon Bonaparte consolidated his power in France in 1802, he commissioned the master armorer at the state armory in Versailles to make him a sword. This magnificent blade, which Napoleon kept by ...

Both the sword and the sheath are made from some of the most valuable materials from Napoleon's era. Giquello “Do you know what fills me most with wonder?” Napoleon once reportedly asked the Marquis ...

A rare sword commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte for his personal use will be auctioned in Paris on May 22, according to the Giquello auction house. The historic sabre, ordered by the French emperor in ...

He also posted them on X moments later (archived): Many people recognized the passage as a quote from Napoleon Bonaparte, the first emperor of France. It first appeared in "Maximes et pensées de ...

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory for his French Empire and challenging the supremacy of Britain on the seas. From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic Wars ...