Having grown tired of over three centuries of the worst form of oppression, social hierarchy and brutal enslavement, black African slaves in the prosperous French colony of Saint-Domingue began a...
Not much is known in French history about the first black man or person of mixed ethnicity to become a brigadier general, divisional general, and general-in-chief in the French army....
The date was June 18, 1815 and Napoleon Bonaparte had one last chance to secure France as Europe’s dominant power against Britain and the Seventh Coalition and possibly bring an...
Napoleon III of France: Fast Facts Born: Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Date of birth: April 20, 1808 Place of birth: Ajaccio, France Died: 1873 Place of death: Chislehurst, Kent, England Aged:...
In 1803, the United States of America and France went into an agreement that saw the former acquire about 827,000 square miles of the latter’s territory. The Louisiana Territory, as...
