Working on my TV shows and guidebooks in Europe, I try to get the straight story on history, but it can be tricky. I keep remembering Napoleon’s quote: “What is history but a myth agreed upon?” With ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Two hundred years ago British, ...

“Extraordinary times produced an extraordinary man,” Michael Broers writes in the third and final volume of his extraordinary biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, the emperor who modernized Europe by ...

Finally, at 11:30, Napoleon’s artillery opened fire. His battle plan was simple. Wellington’s men occupied the outlying farm buildings on both flanks, and the crest of a ridge in the center near the ...

I can’t think of any two people more prominent in the minds of French citizens than the Virgin Mary and Emperor Napoleon. And they share an important date: August 15 – when it’s believed she ascended ...