Tag: Napoleon

Desiree (1954)

Once, Napoleon fell in love with a beautiful young woman named Desiree. As time goes by, Desiree’s love for Napoleon grows, even going so far as to offer a lot of money to support the man she loves the most. However, Napoleon soon realizes that Desiree cannot help him realize his ambition in the political…


Becky Sharp (1935)

Against the backdrop of Napoleon’s Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…


Best Bargain of All Time: How Thomas Jefferson Doubled the Size of America at Five Cents per Acre

One of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest achievements was the Louisiana Purchase, in which the United States acquired 828,800 square miles of the French territory La Louisiane in 1803. Encompassing all or part of 14 current U.S. states, the land included all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Minnesota that were west…


Self-Government, the American Way

Commentary After winning the independence they had declared in 1776, Americans had to prove that they could sustain self-government in peace. They’d governed themselves already, as colonists, but now the British government no longer protected them from the other European powers, and indeed remained a potential enemy of the new country. It’s easy for us…