One year ago, I ventured into the world of journalism with my review of Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” which inspired a set of twelve monthly columns dedicated to Iowa’s French and Napoleonic ...

Born in Gascony in 1769, Jean Lannes joined the French army following the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. By 1796 ... Lannes responded by leading his column into the attack and captured ...

The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French tortured and mutilated their prisoners ...

This carving, made from animal bones, is unusual. It dates from the Napoleonic era and would have been made by a French prisoner of war based at a camp near Peterborough at the end of the ...