When Napoleon Bonaparte was banished in 1815, the Observer published a guide to the remote island – and the luxurious fixtures and fittings ordered for the exiled ruler On 15 October 1815, exiled from ...

Napoleon Bonaparte’s Waterloo army was the last he would ever lead into combat. Returning from exile in March 1815 to a country riven by factionalism and exhausted by two decades of almost unremitting ...

A diamond brooch owned and abandoned by Napoleon Bonaparte after the Battle of Waterloo will go up for auction for the first time. The brooch, made of nearly 100 diamonds, was left behind after the ...

In the early 1800s Napoleon Bonaparte stormed across Europe, swallowing up territory for his French Empire and challenging the supremacy of Britain on the seas. From 1804 to 1814, the Napoleonic Wars ...

Long Read'Making peace' (1/6). Le Monde explores how the wars that marked Europe's history over the last 200 years came to an end, starting with the Congress of Vienna, which concluded the Napoleonic ...

Today it is exactly 200 years since Napoleon was narrowly defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by the combined armies of the British and the Prussians. The narrowness of that defeat (until as late as ...