The French Revolution was not a simple historic event but a long and complex process in which a number of different stadia may be identified. Some of these stadia were even counterrevolutionary in ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by William Doyle, professor emeritus of history and a senior research fellow at the University of Bristol, to discuss his book, Napoleon at Peace: How to End a ...

Napoleon did not, of course, come across Islam for the first time upon waking up one morning on Egyptian soil. Orientalism was in vogue in the West during the Age of Enlightenment, which is how the ...

It is the evening of June 18, 1815 and an exultant Napoleon Bonaparte surveys the field after winning the Battle of Waterloo, planning his next conquest. Within years his empire will stretch as far as ...