Essling, Napoleon led his reinforced army back across the Danube. The resulting clash with Archduke Charles's Austrian army was the biggest and bloodiest battle yet seen in European history, and ...

Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

The collection, amassed over 40 years, comes from the trove of avid Napoleon collector and socialite Pierre-Jean Chalençon ...

Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s trove is one of the most comprehensive private Napoleonic collections ever to come to market.

The discovery of Napoleon’s 3-cm penis invites a deeper discussion about male identity and the perception of power throughout ...

laced bodice to uniform-clad chest, for the entire dance. Women swooned in their partners’ arms, and men waltzed away all thoughts of the police state strangling post-Napoleonic Vienna from 1815.

In September 1805, Austria invaded Napoleon’s ally Bavaria ... Pictured here is a re-enactor in an aide-de-camp’s uniform, photographed by Sam Faulkner for “Unseen Waterloo,” his ...

But Napoleon knew everything might ultimately depend on Austria - which side would his father-in-law, Austrian Emperor Francis I, chose to support? The matter would be settled after a fateful and ...

Fought on a cold and misty December morning 200 years ago, the Battle of Austerlitz is widely regarded as Napoleon's masterpiece. Officials say the French leaders were not due to attend the ceremony ...

About all I could do to orient myself to the fighting was open the compass on my phone and imagine (where there are now rows of townhouses) where the Austrian forces had driven Napoleon back ...

Though the Landsturm existed on paper, they received neither uniforms nor weapons ... Tied to France by marriage, Austria, which Napoleon had defeated and spared twice, knew it stood to lose greatly ...

Two other features of Napoleonic uniforms still in existence, albeit in different capacities, are belts and epaulets. The modern belt is derived from the thick leather belts originally worn by ...