On this special episode of Battle Lines, Roland Oliphant and guests tackle the late David Knowles’ favourite conversational ...

and the Place Vendôme Column (1806-1810), constructed to commemorate Napoleon’s victories in the Wars of the Third and Fourth coalitions and at the Battle of Austerlitz (1805). The column ...

This is the fifth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

This is the sixth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the ...

He frequently deviated from his prepared homily during Mass at the outdoor La Place d’Austerlitz ... Mass beneath a looming statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor whose armies in ...

Bonaparte quickly captured Alexandria, and then on July 3, led his soldiers across the desert toward Cairo — and a looming battle ... They weren’t afraid of Napoleon at all.