The annual Royal & Noble Jewels auction, held on Wednesday in Geneva, concluded with record sales. The jewel that the French ...

It has been more than two centuries since the fate of the Western world hung in the balance on a muddy, rain-soaked ridge in ...

The brooch, which Napoleon used as a hat ornament, was an heirloom of the Prussian Royal House of Hohenzollern for more than ...

From its royal history to the many times the pearl was almost lost, here’s the story behind La Peregrina.

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards.

Here are the top five most expensive coffee varieties in the world, and the extraordinary stories behind them.

Of the 100 plus South Carolina islands, here is our pick of the top islands to escape to for sun, sand, rivers, sea and a ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general and emperor who has been studied by historians and academics for centuries. Despite ...

A new genetic analysis of teeth from a mass grave in Lithuania reveals hidden illnesses that plagued the French emperor's soldiers during their disastrous 1812 retreat. As French general and ruler ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia in 1812. Six months later, after the army was forced to retreat, an ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining ...