Florent Malouda, the former footballer who also played for France and won the Champions League in 2012 with Chelsea, has joined the Foreign Legion at the age of 44. The former player of Chateauroux, ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

PARIS — After the Hollywood epic “Napoleon” exposed the legendary emperor to a new generation two years ago, over 100 relics ...

A French woman, Pauline Fourès earned the nickname "Napoleon's Cleopatra" during the French military expedition to Egypt.

The grave of a notable soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo has been restored by volunteers. Sgt William Lawrence's ...

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

GRAVETTE -- The remains of U.S. Army Private Rodger Dean Andrews, who died in the D-Day Normandy invasion during World II, were buried Monday next to his parents and sister.

He hurried home and later found the group at a restaurant eating lunch. He excitedly, in French, described what it was like as a boy in the summer of 1944 to see his home liberated. As his story was ...

A soldier with the 28th Division stands amid the ruins of Gathemo, France, in August 1944. (Screenshot from National Archives film) Shaun Nadolny is finally making the trip from Wisconsin to visit ...