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The piece, which Napoleon ordered in 1802 and kept throughout his reign, was sold for 4.66 million euros ($5.27 million) late ...
Greek media shared video showing British onlookers watching the performing artists outside the Palace of St. Michael and St. George early today.
Then came Waterloo and Napoleon’s exile, in 1815, to the island of St. Helena. Representatives of the nations that had defeated him arrived in Paris to reclaim their art. The Apollo Belvedere ...
The 19th century got off to a fairly good start for Napoleon Bonaparte. Victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo led to a peace deal with Emperor Francis II, and by 1802 France had ...
James White Much of the scarce information, available about the life of James White, a civil engineer and author of the ...
In his poem ‘The Eve of Waterloo’ (part of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage), the poet fixes on a ball given in Brussels on 15 June 1815 by the Duchess of Richmond ... the notion that all military ...
The mural created by students from the University of Northern Iowa’s Interactive Digital Studies program had sustained storm ...
A sword that belonged to Napoleon and was specially ordered for the personal use of the French emperor fetched almost 4.7 ...
Artist’s depiction of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 Contemporaneous accounts of the Battle of Waterloo reported that the smoke, screech and crash of muskets and gunfire continued all day on June ...
An unlikely — and Jewish — cowboy, Simon Nunes Carvalho documented an exciting (and failed) expedition to the Wild West ...