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The French have always been one of the most formidable opponents for the Russians. They even managed to seize Moscow once, where they nearly blew up...

DECCAN CHRONICLE. Updated Jun 10, 2021, 1:03 am IST In short, no matter how legitimately political power is acquired, justice demands the balancing factor of an opposition  News As the world reeled from the Belarus kidnapping, the crackdown in Hong Kong and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, I came across a poignant description not just of another tragedy but of an underlying factor in all such traumas. Looking back at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989, when hund...

Black Lives Matter goes to war with Napoleon and the French Revolution The New York Times championed the 1619 Project, a now-discredited attempt to rewrite all of US history as centered on racial conflict and the first arrival of slaves in America in 1619. The racialist climate it helped stoke has seen petty-bourgeois supporters of Black Lives Matter topple statues of leaders of the 1776 American Revolution and of the anti-slavery forces in the US Civil War. Now, the Times is taking aim at th...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 10 May 2021 He was a force of nature.He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies, including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769-1821). On Wednesday, May 5, President Emmanuel Macron and the French nation celebrated the bicentenary of h...

Views: Visits 13 By Obadiah Mailafia He was a force of nature. He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies;including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769—1821). On Wednesday 5 May, President Emmanuel Macron and the French nation celebrated the bic...

Share He was a force of nature. He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies; including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769-1821). On Wednesday, May 5, President Emmanuel Macron and the French nation celebrated the bicentenary of his lonely death on the island of St. Hele...

Vanguard News Napoleon Bonaparte and the Black Jacobins On By Obadiah Mailafia He was a force of nature. He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies;including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769—1821). On Wednesday 5 May, President Emmanuel Macron and the French natio...

As the world marks the bicentenary of Napoléon Bonaparte’s death on May 5, FRANCE 24 looks at the Egyptian campaign he launched in 1798. It was a military disaster for France – but also a political s…

Laura O’Brien assesses recent work on his life and legacy.  Two hundred years after his death, what more is there to say about Napoleon Bonaparte? He remains a perennially popular subject for works of history aimed at the general reader, whether conventional biographies or more specialised studies on aspects of his life, regime and cultural legacy. If, as the Napoleonic historian Philip Dwyer suggests, writing a biography is like holding up a mirror for a contemporary readership, who is the ...