On this special episode of Battle Lines, Roland Oliphant and guests tackle the late David Knowles’ favourite conversational ...
On this special episode of Battle Lines, Roland Oliphant and guests tackle the late David Knowles’ favourite conversational gambit: Who is your favourite of Napoleon’s Marshals? As they ponder ...
"David sought to reinforce his views and visual art with material from the classical world." Bilal Junejo explores the significance of Ancient Rome in Jacques-Louis David's paintings.
Once Europe's biggest problem, Napoleon Bonaparte is still posing a dilemma for France, 200 years after his death in exile on the Atlantic island of St Helena. Napoleon was a brilliant military ...
This month marks the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, in which Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in present day Belgium by a military alliance commanded by the Duke of Wellington. A ceremony ...
There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography ...
Napoleon's favourite general has been formally identified after DNA tests on a one-legged skeleton found under a dance floor in western Russia. Analysis confirmed that the bones belonged to ...
Napoleon is a threatening and 'fierce looking' Berkshire boar. He is one of the three pigs that take Old Major's ideas and turn them into 'Animalism' - a system of thought that encourages the ...
Alarmed by France’s growing power, the Prussians now challenged Napoleon, who made short work of them. "The idea that Prussia could take the field against me by herself," he said, "seems so ...
2014 Takarazuka Revue Star Troupe production This is the story of a hero a man who rescued France from the chaos of revolution His name was Napoléon Bonaparte Having climbed to unparalleled ...