"Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been ...

Army veterans and archeologists dig as part of archaeological research campaign called "Waterloo Uncovered" in Waterloo WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - A cannonball discovered this week by ...

In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo said of the Battle of Waterloo that "an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World." Indeed, bad weather caused by ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

A devastating volcanic eruption on the other side of the world contributed to Napoleon’s defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, scientists say. Fascinating new research released Wednesday makes a ...

Europe is united these days, but opinion about the French emperor and military leader is not. A re-enactment of the epic battle that marked his... 200 Years After Waterloo, Napoleon Still Divides ...

Napoleon depicted on horseback at the Battle of Waterloo. Getty Images A devastating volcanic eruption on the other side of the world contributed to Napoleon’s defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, ...

GENEVA — A diamond brooch that Napoleon lost while the French emperor and his forces were retreating from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 sold for approximately $4.4 million (more than 3.5 million ...

The literal French definition of “tour de force,” an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as “feat of strength.” Therefore I don’t get it. I don’t get why Joaquin Phoenix ...

Napoleon deserved to lose Waterloo, and Wellington to win it, but the essential point in this bicentenary year is that the epic battle did not need to be fought—and the world would have been better ...

WATERLOO, Belgium, July 17 (Reuters) - A cannonball discovered this week by archaeologists provides a further indication of how close Napoleon Bonaparte came to winning the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.