Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, with huge Austrian armies poised to strike against the French Republic.

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

In 1799, a Corsican artillery officer named Bonaparte led a coup against the government of post-Revolution France, first making himself dictator (under the title “First Consul”) and later ...

Greek rebels led by Mavrovouniotis landed in Beirut, 1826, to free Syria from Ottomans but failed. Local resistance and ...

The fact that a routine diplomatic meeting unraveled into an event that reshaped the global order shocked many but has historical precedent. In numerous past incidents, what began as a trivial ...

Amid the rising tensions, Hussein Dey summoned French consul Pierre Deval to his court ... demanding Emperor Napoleon III immediately declare war to restore French honor. France declared war ...

The name Livingston was not exactly unknown to me when I first came to Allentown in 1981 ... Louis-Phillippe and Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon and the former king of Spain.

The Umayyad Mosque was a masterpiece of early Islamic architecture, built in the eighth century when Damascus was the capital of the first Muslim empire ... Augustus Johnson, the American consul in ...