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Vintage engraving of Napoleon Bonaparte at Auxonne ... and a promotion – to brigadier general. Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon the Great, tells the podcast his inexorable rise at just ...

Though Napoleon Bonaparte was often known to prefer simple meals, his last meal was an extravagant breakfast full of traditional French dishes.

In many ways, the marriage of Napoleon and Josephine Bonaparte from 1796 to 1809 mirrored the tumultuous time in which they became emperor and empress of France. More than 200 years later ...

While Bonaparte waited for the right moment to ... YOUSSEF: They weren’t afraid of Napoleon at all. The Mamelukes were brought up with fierce principles of courage and chivalry.

In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte sailed with a French army to Egypt. The plan was to ...

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...