Its owners finally decided to part with the historical treasure from the end of the Napoleonic Wars and it went under the hammer. The sword was bought by a private French collector for £38,000 ...

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 ...

Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops over the Pyrenees. On November 30, French ...

When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18, 1812, the French ... commander Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged Sarah Kuta Nobody knows for sure, but plausible theories include swords, servants ...