A spirit of defiance and a mysterious culture endure on the French island of Corsica, intertwined with the timeless beauty of its fragrant shrubbery, rugged mountains and medieval villages.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleone Buonaparte in Ajaccio, on the French island of Corsica, on August 15, 1769. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, the largest city, in 1769 but outside of his birthplace nobody seems to care much. The island is 183 kms in length and a maximum of 83 kms in width. The least ...

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio on Aug. 15, 1769, and lived there until age 9, when he left to study on the Continent.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Ajaccio, the capital of the island of Corsica. Today, down a tiny side street, the house he was born in is open to the public as Musée de la maison ...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) has long held a “seductive” appeal for artists, says Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian. He ranks third behind Jesus and Hitler in the number of books written about ...

Get to know the many sides of Napoleon Bonaparte during the James Smith Noel Collection’s commemorative event series. Aug. 15 marked what would have been Napoleon’s 250th birthday.

Born in Corsica, Napoleon became a powerful military leader who led French armies on conquests in Europe and Africa. He made himself emperor of France in 1804.

He changed his name to the more French sounding Napoléon Bonaparte after the Revolution, when he was made commander of the Army of the Interior at the age of 26, and was only known as Napoleon later.