Napoleon ordered the sabre in 1802 and kept it throughout his reign. The Giquello auction firm said on Friday it expected the ...

The destruction brought by the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th Century transformed bare land into fields of blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers. In late 1914 ...

Britain's credibility as a debtor was fundamental to its ability to finance the fight against Revolutionary, and later Napoleonic France. The scale and length of the war demanded that it sustain ...

to one of the most notorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in terrible conditions, with appalling losses on both sides.

A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor is to be auctioned in ...