Dubbed "the pistols that might have changed the course of history" the dual flintlock guns were owned by the famous French general until 1814 - the year he considered using them to take his own life, ...

"It was the beginning of the end," Napoleon's former foreign minister Charles Talleyrand said. After Napoleon's lost most of his army in Russia, Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden united against him ...

Had it not been for Count Pavel Shuvalov, both Napoleon’s famous ‘Hundred Days’ and the Battle of Waterloo could have been prevented. In the spring of 1814, the French Empire came to its end: ...

Early in the morning of March 7, 1815, a dispatch arrived at the bedroom of Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian foreign minister. Exhausted - meetings had kept him up till 3 a.m. the night before - ...

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