Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

Burn explained that Betsy was the fourth child of William Patterson’s 11 children — six sons, and five daughters. Patterson, at the time, was a millionaire by today’s standards, and the second ...

A six-bedroom mansion in the upmarket London neighbourhood of Mayfair where exiled French emperor Napoleon III was entertained in the mid 19th century is up for sale. The grand five-storey Georgian ...

The only secondary school on St Helena is to be renamed after the headteacher of the Prince Andrew School said its link to ...

Prince Andrew School headteacher Phil Toal touted the school's healthy respect for history, but said the association with the ...

With access to a unique archive of personal letters, this documentary brings the love story of Napoleon to life. The unpublished love letters Napoleon wrote to Josephine shed new light on Napoleon ...