Some 100 Napoleon artifacts from the Chalençon collection are headed to the auction block at Sotheby's Paris in June.

A vast and varied collection of artifacts—all related to the life and legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte—is heading to the auction ...

Two other features of Napoleonic uniforms still in existence, albeit in different capacities, are belts and epaulets. The modern belt is derived from the thick leather belts originally worn by ...

Most historians agree that Napoleon was not a great military innovator. Instead, he won his battles by brilliantly combining the innovations of others, such as Marshal de Broglie’s system of ...

A single-breasted uniform jacket extending evenly ... a key element in the wardrobe of Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov, who defeated Napoleon. By the mid-19 th century everything had changed.

In conventional histories the life of Michel Ney, cooper’s son whose brilliance and bravery in the service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France ...