Napoleon Bonaparte, France’s famed military commander and emperor, formally gave up his throne. Under the Treaty of ...

Two months before Napoleon's historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains ...

1814: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in ...

On April 11, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Army troops liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, ...

Samantha Reinders “Please, take the emperor’s seat,” says Michel ... he oversees Longwood House, Napoleon Bonaparte’s home in exile from 1815 to 1821, the last years of his life.

Napoleon crowned himself emperor on December 2, 1804, turning the French Republic into the French Empire, with a Bonaparte line of succession. He felt that this provision for continuity was ...

PARIS, France -- New evidence has given weight to the theory that French emperor Napoleon was poisoned by French and British conspirators. French scientists say new findings prove that Napoleon ...

Col. Lloyd M. Morris, director of the Blair County-Altoona Civil Defense Council, was presented the CD’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Citation, in ceremonies at the Pentagon in Washington, ...

Since the invasion plans by the emperor's entourage, relations between France and Brazil have gone through several upheavals that still resonate today.

In 1471, during a series of civil wars for control of the English throne, known as the Wars of the Roses, King Edward IV of England seized London from Henry ...