The former French emperor's weapon changes hands within his family. June 11, 2007 — -- A piece of Napoleonic history was auctioned off Sunday, near Paris, for $6.4 million. After an intense ...
In the first act of Ridley Scott’s newest film, “Napoleon,” the French general does something strangely anti-historical: fire a cannon at the tip of the Great Pyramids. In the next scene, he stands on ...
‘Surrender of Lord Cornwallis,’ an 1820 oil painting by John Trumbell that hangs in the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol, depicts British Brig. Gen. Charles O’Hara, center on foot, preparing to surrender ...