At Friedland, Napoleon unleashed a devastating strike that shattered Russian resistance. By nightfall, the map of Europe was his to redraw.

Napoleon’s Wars: An International History, 1803–1815, by Charles Esdaile (Viking, 656 pp., $35) For all his renown, Napoleon Bonaparte remains an elusive figure with a contested legacy. Admirers view ...

The false map, used by one of his officers and identical to Napoleon’s own, was discovered by Bernard Coppens, a Belgian illustrator and historian, still stained with blood, at a Brussels ...

Heavy cavalry served Napoleon well throughout his reign. He inherited a single regiment of cuirassiers in 1799, and expanded the corps to twelve regiments by 1804. Napoleon first committed his ...

Éric Zemmour, author of The French Suicide, typifies the right’s view of Napoleon. Zemmour likes to recall how it took all of Europe to defeat Napoleon in 1815.

Napoleon once stated, “There are in Europe more than 30 million French, 15 million Spaniards, 30 million Germans. I had wanted to do for each of these peoples a single national body.” ...

I recently finished reading Napoleon Bonaparte England's Prisoner:The Emperor in Exile: 1816 -21, by Frank Giles, which I thoroughly enjoyed. At the end of it I was feeling pity for ...

Emperor, the, Proposal for European CongressThere could not be a better proof of the long distance which still separates us from anything like a "parliament of man," than the objections which are ...