The warship gangway that Napoleon Bonaparte stood on to surrender to the British Navy following the Battle of Waterloo is set to fetch £60,000 at auction. Described as a 'national treasure marking the ...

Army veterans and archeologists dig as part of archaeological research campaign called "Waterloo Uncovered" in Waterloo WATERLOO, Belgium (Reuters) - A cannonball discovered this week by ...

A hat believed to have been worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo has sold for $325,000 at auction, according to the BBC. It had been expected to sell for less than $50,000. The sale, ...

In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo said of the Battle of Waterloo that "an unseasonably clouded sky sufficed to bring about the collapse of a World." Indeed, bad weather caused by ...

LIGNY, Belgium – Napoleon Bonaparte, also known as Frank Samson, a pudgy Paris lawyer who likes wearing gold braided uniforms and a black bicorne hat, won his last battle on Sunday in southern Belgium ...

It is the evening of June 18, 1815 and an exultant Napoleon Bonaparte surveys the field after winning the Battle of Waterloo, planning his next conquest. Within years his empire will stretch as far as ...

PARIS — A hat attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte and said to have been dropped on the battlefield at Waterloo 203 years ago was bought on Monday for more than $400,000. It was another sign, if one were ...

Napoleon Bonaparte may have been “robbed of victory” at Waterloo – depending on who you ask – but that defeat, catastrophic as it was, did not rob him of glory. In the bicentenary year of his death, ...

Two centuries ago this week, a coalition of European forces defeated Napoleon in an epic battle outside the city of Brussels. The continent is united these days, but the Battle of Waterloo still has ...

The black felt hat, valued between 600,000 and 800,000 euros (£525,000 and £700,000) went up for auction today. The historic item was auctioned alongside more of his personal artefacts in ...