The Modlin Fortress has a long history. Built on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars, it was designed to serve as a strategic military outpost for the French. In the 19th ...

More: Anna's Thinking Cap: Winning the Peace: The legacy of the Congress of Vienna After negotiations between the then First Consul Napoleon and President Thomas Jefferson, the French retreat from ...

Napoleon’s signed edition of the civil code, a leather-bound collection of laws introduced under his reign, was sold at ...