Napoleon Bonaparte sought to reinstate slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti), but he faced an unexpected and formidable opponent: Toussaint Louverture. Born a slave, Louverture led ...

Considering he's the series' de facto French leader – leading the country in three mainline entries and both Civilization ...

Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of this sort, he had argued, would lead not to democracy but despotism.

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... It was then reinstated by Napoleon in 1802 and abolished again in 1848. Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all ... but was acting as an independent state. In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte, who had seized power in France in 1799, sought to restore slavery ...

A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution ...

Poppleton died in Galway in the 1820s at the age of 52. Napoleon was known to use the chaos of the French revolution to rise through the ranks of the army and seize political power in France.

The French Revolution vividly unfurls in a maelstrom of violence, discontent, and fundamental change. King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, and Napoleon Bonaparte lead a cast ...