Then, in late February 1815, Europe received a shock ... Born on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte possessed furious intelligence and relentless ambition. As a young soldier ...

Of course, in 1815, it was at Waterloo that the guns ... just as the Russian and Prussian armies entered Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte was sent to the tiny island of Elba, off the Tuscan coast ...

After Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was exiled to St. Helena, one of the world's most remote inhabited islands. He spent the rest of his life there, isolated ...

Napoleon Bonaparte poses for a portrait in his coronation ... forces to victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 Print via The Trustees of the British Museum Napoleon's attempts ...

Napoleon Bonaparte's iconic hat sold at auction Sunday ... period when Baillon was assigned to the Emperor's Palace (1806-1815)," the description on the Osenat website reads.

One of Napoleon Bonaparte’s famous black hats sold for ... He fixed the cockade to his hat in 1815, on his return to France from his exile in Elba. “People recognized his hat everywhere ...