The Frogs have been getting uppity over Joaquin Phoenix’s depiction of Napoleon, in Ridley Scott’s new blockbuster. Their historians point out the real Boney didn’t participate in cavalry charges, ...
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Everyone thinks Napoleon was short. His height was recorded in “pied,” which means he was actually taller than the average soldier.
Napoleon Bonaparte gets teased more than almost any historic figure, and somehow the joke always circles back to his height.
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Mind-Boggling Napoleon Facts
A French Emperor who dreamed of retiring in New Jersey. A military dictator who wrote steamy romances. A corporal who saw the world past death. These are the weird things you don't know about Napoleon ...
New facts about the role played by Napoleon in the emancipation of European Jewry at the beginning of the nineteenth century are revealed in an article in the current issue of The American Hebrew. The ...
As our titular Corsican, Joaquin Phoenix is interesting, with his equal parts Al Pacino-in-Scarface and Malcolm McDowell-in-Caligula hair, because he portrays Bonaparte subject to the enervating ...
Before I even had children, I loved dad movies. I have every word of “The Fugitive” memorized. I once went full “Braveheart” and used “I loov ya. Ullwees have” as a pickup line in college (didn’t work ...
Video. Thousands of re-enactors in the Czech Republic recreated Napoleon’s 1805 victory at Austerlitz, drawing large crowds ...
A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...
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