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, ...

Napoleon Bonaparte gets teased more than almost any historic figure, and somehow the joke always circles back to his height.

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 ...

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 ...

While the dynamic between a stoic Joaquin Phoenix and smoldering Vanessa Kirby intrigues, the French emperor’s strange relationship with Josephine distracts from the director’s specialty: epic war ...

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 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 ...

A 2006 study involving DNA from 35 other soldiers from the same cemetery detected the pathogens behind typhus and trench ...

I'm a huge history buff, and I'm learning new fun facts all the time. I mean, all the time. I find that history is the best place to learn interesting facts...and also where you find the best gossip.