It was during this siege that young Napoleon Bonaparte first won fame and promotion when his plan, involving the capture of fortifications above the harbour, was credited with forcing the city to capitulate and the Anglo-Spanish fleet to withdraw.
In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...
The remote island of St. Helena, a British possession located in the south Atlantic, is perhaps best...
Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of polic...
In 1804 Napoleon created 18 'Marshals of the Empire', to serve as the senior officers of the Grande ...
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
Documentary by Real Time History chronicling Napoleon’s defeat in the 1813 campaign which ended the ...
It was to be Napoleon Bonaparte's greatest adventure; an invasion of Russia with an army of more tha...
In 1800, France's new First Consul - Napoleon Bonaparte - faces a precarious military situation, wit...
This film gives an overview of Napoleons return to France in 1815 before covering in detail the Batt...
This final part takes us through the dramatic events when Wellington’s Anglo-Dutch Army aided by Blu...
The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the to...
During the Napoleonic Wars the British Army realised that it needed skirmishers, as a result it rais...
95th Rifles 1809 to Salamanca is the second DVD in 95th Rifles trilogy of films and part of The Peni...
Napoleon brings his war against Russia and Prussia to an end with victory at Friedland, leading to t...
The documentary tells how Bonaparte's passion - sometimes Bonaparte's obsession - for art and knowle...
First engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon’s greatest victories at Auste...