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 ...

Gerard DeGroot is a professor of history at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His latest book is “Back in Blighty: The British at Home in World War One.” Waterloo By Bernard Cornwell Harper.

An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent. Mark Schneider secured the job as Napoleon partly because of his ability to command ...

Working on my TV shows and guidebooks in Europe, I try to get the straight story on history, but it can be tricky. I keep remembering Napoleon’s quote: “What is history but a myth agreed upon?” The ...

June 18 marks the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s great defeat at Waterloo, the battle in today’s Belgium that ended his career. Waterloo has since become a byword for a final crushing defeat.

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 ...

LIGNY, Belgium – Napoleon Bonaparte, also known as Frank Samson, a pudgy Paris lawyer who likes wearing gold braided uniforms and a black bicorne hat, won his last battle on Sunday in southern Belgium ...

Two centuries ago this week, a coalition of European forces defeated Napoleon in an epic battle outside the city of Brussels. The continent is united these days, but the Battle of Waterloo still has ...