Napoleon’s soldiers charged. The British counterattacked, driving the French back in confusion ... refusing to order retreat. One officer heard him say: "Night or the Prussians must come." ...

They had to flee Corsica – and the soldier decided to go all in as a French officer. From that point, Napoleon emerged. After the deposed king Louis XVI was executed in January 1793, a new ...

It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based ... as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was given to ...

Royal Museums Greenwich French Imperial Customs officers were deployed widely across Napoleon’s Empire to enforce an embargo on British trade He kept the clothing as a souvenir of his daring ...