Napoleon Bonaparte’s journey from his birth in Corsica in 1768 to his coronation as Emperor of France in 1804 is a tale of ...

That rhetorical tone of French conversation—still dominant ... marked—is that the people surrounding Napoleon had risen from the ranks, and his generals and marshals were as likely to be ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader who rose through the ranks during the French Revolution. He graduated from a French military academy in 1785 and became a second lieutenant in an ...

With Bennigsen’s men trapped on the river’s western bank, French artillery tore into the Russian ranks. Thanks in large part to Lannes, Napoleon had won his decisive victory at the Battle of ...

Napoleon Bonaparte possessed furious intelligence and relentless ambition. As a young soldier, he supported the radical ideals of the French Revolution and rose rapidly through the ranks of the ...

"Napoleon" will hit theaters Nov. 22 in ... the trailer shows flashes of Bonaparte's meteoric rise from the ranks of a simple French soldier as he claims France's throne for himself.

Ridley Scott is set to release "Napoleon," an historical ... Bonaparte rose through the military ranks by leading successful military campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.