The dress sword carried by Napoleon Bonaparte when he staged a coup in 1799 and other firearms sold at auction for more than $2.8 million.

Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly donned the collection’s sword and scabbard in 1799 when he arrived in Paris and drove out the Directory’s Council of Five Hundred legislative body from Saint-Cloud.

The dress sword carried by Napoleon Bonaparte when he staged a coup in 1799 will go under the hammer at the weekend with five other weapons that belonged to the French emperor, US auctioneers ...

The first volume, Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, examined why and how French gains in the Rhineland, Switzerland, and Italy that resulted from ...

A sword that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and was specially ordered for the personal use by the French emperor will be auctioned in Paris next month, an auction house said. Napoleon ordered the ...

Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant covers why and how French gains in the Rhineland, Switzerland, and Italy that resulted from Bonaparte’s victories in 1797 that led to the Peace of Campo Formio ...