The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques Louis David. Joséphine kneels before Napoléon during his coronation at Notre Dame. Behind him sits pope Pius VII.

Napoleon Bonaparte's Major Battles

Over the course of two decades, Napoleon's armies won an Empire for France that only a coalition of the world's biggest powers could stop.

Andrea Rodriguez Flores

Explore a map of the most important battles of the French Emperor's notorious career.

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Napoleon was dead within six years of his arrival to the island of St. Helena, but his legacy lives on.