This Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ 1804 portrait of Napoleon shows him as a civilian officer instead of an invading hero. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, France “Ah, if it were only to be done over ...

Elon Musk has studied the life of Napoleon Bonaparte for leadership inspiration, according to biographer Walter Isaacson. The billionaire “likes military history” and “believes there are lessons that ...

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own ...

Military genius or a war-obsessed tyrant? Few readers of history are neutral about the dynamic Frenchman Napoleon Bonaparte, whose name is reflexively attached to the incessant wars that wasted Europe ...

As only French biographers can do, every conceivable motive and alternative scenario is presented at every stage in the astonishing rise of the subject from the petty and parvenu and rather ...

‘From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step,” Napoleon quipped when he reached Warsaw on Dec. 10, 1812, in retreat from snowy Moscow and the biggest military fiasco of his career. Adam ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Ajaccio, the capital of the island of ...

Even though Napoleon Bonaparte never made it to New Orleans, he will be here in spirit — or at least in related objets d’art — on Aug. 15, when M.S. Rau Antiques marks Napoleon’s 250th birthday with a ...