More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them to ...

In his novel “Les Miserables”, Victor Hugo wrote “an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World.” He’s referring to the Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon’s army ensured ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

June 18 marks the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s great defeat at Waterloo, the battle in today’s Belgium that ended his career. Waterloo has since become a byword for a final crushing defeat.

Human remains and musket balls found at battle site marking Napoleon Bonaparte's final defeat Archaeologists digging at a site where the 1815 Battle of Waterloo was fought have turned up human remains ...

It is common knowledge that at “Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender.” And the fact that the ABBA song is best known around the world in its English iteration is the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo ...

Napoleon deserved to lose Waterloo, and Wellington to win it, but the essential point in this bicentenary year is that the epic battle did not need to be fought—and the world would have been better ...

Two hundred and ten years after the French were defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, marking the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, the decisive clash is re-enacted. The event brought together more ...

A pair of pistols that were presented by Napoleon six weeks after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo are being sold at auction. They were made by Boutet of Versaillles (Paris) and bear the marks for ...

An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of the battle, despite his accent. An American war re-enactor earned the job of Napoleon for the 210th anniversary of ...