Frustrated by Portugal's defiance of his Continental Blockade against trade with Great Britan, Napoleon ordered General Jerot to march French troops ... a part of his empire.

The French Invasion of Russia in 1812 was a military campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte and the Grande Armée against the Russian Empire. It was a major part of the Napoleonic Wars. The French Army ...

However, that revolution was not the end of royal rule in France. After Napoleon Bonaparte came to power, the French state swayed from republicanism to monarchy or empire several more times until the ...