As I look out of my hotel room window, Christmas lights sparkle while the magnificent Windsor Castle looms large.

Prince Louis Napoleon was forty when he won the election for the French Presidency in 1848, a small, reserved, enigmatic man with chestnut hair, brown beard and a pointed moustache. Polling well over ...

It's OTTWeekender time! Some big news this week as Firelock announced they are stepping into the Napoleonic period with a new wargame, Blood And Bayonets, coming in 2025! With the awesome rules and ...

“The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan throws over the chaos, to pass from hell to heaven.” Napoleon at St. Helena. Longwood House. One of the best Napoleonic Museum in the world. On March ...

The Second French Empire, which Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon) ruled from December 2, 1852, to September 4, 1870, succeeded the brief French Second Republic. It marked a period of significant economic ...

Getting its official pricing in Malaysia is the 2025 Benda Napolean Bob 500, retailing at RM27,888. Pricing does not include road tax, insurance or registration and there are two colour options ...

The graves of a group of French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars have been restored by a group of military history enthusiasts. The four men and one woman were buried at St John's Church in ...

Napoleon’s liberalism was far less dogmatic ... In his 1819 essay Bourbons and Buonapartes, François-René de Chateaubriand complained: We have praised Buonaparte’s administration.

The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the U.S. The Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) targets outstanding PhD students from American ...

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 ...

The future Empress of the French was born in Martinique in 1763 as Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, daughter of a minor aristocrat. She was known as Rose or Marie and it was Napoleon who ...