An extremely rare ‘bicorne,’ or 2-pointed hat, that was worn by Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo was sold at auction in France for $325,000 on Monday. The hat went under the hammer for €280,000 ...

The Battle of Waterloo in June 1815 was Napoleon Bonaparte’s final gamble for power. In one minute: Napoleon faced the Duke ...

"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 ...

A hat said to be worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo sold for more than $400,000 at an auction in Lyon, France. The De Baecque auction house told CNN the buyer is a European collector ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 hat believed to have been worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo has sold for $325,000 at auction, according to the BBC. It had been expected to sell for less than $50,000. The sale, ...

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 ...

One of the many things Napoleon Bonaparte was famous for was taking long soaks in the bath, during which he read newspapers. Napoleon's remains were taken back to Paris where he lies in a vast marble ...

Why We’d Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo On the bicentennial of the most famous battle in world history, a distinguished historian looks at what could have been Andrew Roberts June ...