In 1803, war erupted in Europe once again. Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul of the First Republic of France, had an eye on conquering Great Britain, assembling as many as 200,000 soldiers near ...

This 1803 political satire shows a tiny Napoleon trapped in a cage and put on display by a sailor—surrounded by people remarking on how small and weak he is.

By the beginning of 1803, though, hostilities between France and Great Britain were heating up. Napoleon realized that he didn’t have the resources to both fight the British and do the whole ...

Think of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and you'll likely picture a short man with his hand tucked into his ... The below image was published in 1803 when the two countries were at war, ...

This left Laussat with little to do but officiate when, on a sunny December 20, 1803, the French tricolor was slowly lowered in New Orleans’ main square, ... NAPOLEON’S FRANCE ...

On April 3, 1803, Napoleon reclined in a rose water-scented bath at Paris’s Tuileries Palace. It was where France’s self-declared emperor and power-hungry dictator conducted much of his ...

In 1803, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE shared the dignity of Consul of the Republic with two other French citizens; he was not invested with any of the rights which belong to the chiefs of sovereign houses, ...

Bonaparte shook Maryland and French society when she married Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, after a great deal of intrigue and family suspense on Dec. 24, 1803.