Napoléon Bonaparte came to power in France in 1799, in the wake of the enormous slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue that forced the French to grudgingly abolish slavery in all their colonies in ...

Object Details Created by Paul Claude Gardère, Haitian American, 1944 - 2011 Subject of Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres, French, 1780 - 1867 Napoleon Bonaparte, French, 1769 - 1821 Caption In Secret ...

Why did Napoleon sell Louisiana to the United States? Unfortunately, he left very few written traces of his Louisiana policy and, therefore, historians disagree. Their explanations tend to emphasise ...