Firefighters with the East Bank Consolidated Fire Department were on scene at a two-alarm blaze in Metairie Tuesday afternoon ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte led his Grand Army into Russia in 1812, he commanded the largest military force Europe had ever seen ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but until recently, no one could say ...

After extracting and analyzing ancient DNA from the teeth of 13 soldiers they instead found evidence the men suffered from a ...

At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques have identified two ...

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Gwen Kelley, a librarian who specializes in genealogy and who has led genealogy classes at the Jefferson Parish Library for ...

‘Napoleon’ Review: Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix Deliver a Film That Works Better as a Comedy Than a Historical Epic Those worried about a glorification of the dictator needn't have feared.

Napoleon was only 51 when he died on the island of St. Helena, where he was out of power and exiled from his beloved France. By May 5, 1821, he had been getting sicker for several months ...

Napoleon didn’t start off as royalty, but rather as a French army officer from a minor Italian noble family from Corsica. But he was a voracious reader and brilliant military strategist, which ...