Power can move armies, yet private fear still marks history, bending routines, public image, and the stories leaders leave behind.

Napoleon left the tiny island behind and returned to France to reclaim his larger empire. It was an impressive effort, but one that ended in a second defeat, at Waterloo, and a second exile to an even ...

At brief, introspective moments in Ridley Scott's pyrotechnics-heavy biopic Napoleon, a simple melody emerges from the delicate sound of an old piano. It's more than 200 years old and once belonged to ...

Two of three "priceless" altar plaques, stolen from the crypt of Napoleon Bonaparte III in a Hampshire monastery, have been recovered. An antiques dealer recognised identifying marks from a ...

It’s a sight, to be sure, though perhaps not as wild as watching Joaquin Phoenix’s military genius scrambling like a guilty puppy through a palace while still trying to keep up appearances for a ...