As British, Austrian, Russian, and Austrian forces once again came together to stop Napoleon in 1815, Napoleon gathered forces to rebuild his empire. His final campaigns, fought in Belgium, culminated ...

Napoleon saw the futility of going on. As allied armies closed in around him, he let events run their course. He was a desperate man, totally confused. On June 22, 1815 — four days after the ...

The name also evokes the French military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte (1776-1821), who seized power after the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor and ruled France until 1815. Napoleon himself ...

Students debate this question by researching Napoleon's life and writing about his career from a variety of perspectives in a circa-1815 "newspaper." Explore how Napoleon used the church in his ...