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* Psychonauts, a video game developed by Double Fine Productions, features a level in which the player is to aid the future kin of Napoleon Bonaparte in a board game which was based on the battle of Waterloo.
* The award-winning video game Psychonauts features a mental patient locked in an obsessive mind-game with Napoleon, who is fighting for his mind.
Soon after the success of Napoleon Dynamite, the music group G. Love and Special Sauce asked Efren to appear in their music video " Booty Call ".

Napoleon and game
* Napoleon ( card game )
* Napoleon ( GBA game )
* Napoleon, a real-time strategy game for Windows
* Napoleon Total War, a turn based / real time strategy game for the PC.
FreeCell's origins may date back even further to 1945 and a Scandinavian game called Napoleon in St. Helena ( not the game Napoleon at St. Helena, also known as Forty Thieves ).
Later games included 1914, Anzio, 1776, Jutland, Third Reich, Panzer Blitz, Kingmaker, Napoleon, Victory in the Pacific, The Russian Front, Republic of Rome, Age of Renaissance, Storm Over Arnhem, Turning Point Stalingrad, Up-Front ( a card driven game ), Raid on St. Nazaire, Successors of Alexander the Great, London is Burning and Atlantic Storm.
The Battle of Eylau was reconstructed in the home computer strategy game Napoleon at War released by C. C. S.
According to an eyewitness report, Mälzel took responsibility for the construction of the machine while preparing the game, and the Turk ( Johann Baptist Allgaier ) saluted Napoleon prior to the start of the match.
In a surprise move, Napoleon took the first turn instead of allowing the Turk to make the first move, as was usual ; but Mälzel allowed the game to continue.
Napoleon was reportedly amused, and then played a real game with the machine, completing nineteen moves before tipping over his king in surrender.
New subscribers received free copies of its most successful game, Napoleon At Waterloo-an " easy to play " pocket-sized game with a foldout map and 78 pieces punched from cardstock.
They all follow a set formula in which the player either chooses a nation ( New World, Cold War ) or is put with their general's historic nation ( Alexander the Great, Napoleon ) aside from " Conquer the World ", in which any nation may be chosen to play throughout every age in the game.
* Blücher, a hand in the British card game Napoleon
* Napoleon ( card game )
Based on the children's roleplaying game about the Napoleonic Wars, the series featured the Duke of Wellington and his two ( actual ) sons Charles and Arthur, and their arch-nemesis Alexander Percy, partly based on Napoleon.
The game begins with Napoleon as an army officer, but with victories in combat, the user may get promoted to Commander-in-Chief, First Consul, and finally Emperor of the French, with more powers and actions available at each level.
The game further permits a recreation of the Battle of Trafalgar, which occurs whenever Napoleon attempts to invade England ( or Gibraltar ) from sea.

Napoleon and published
The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).
A much more comprehensive list of inhabitants between 1815-1821 is provided by Chaplin, Arnold, A St Helena's Who's Who or a Directory of the Island During the Captivity of Napoleon, published by the author in 1914.
In this year he published the first part of his Geist der Zeit, in which he flung down the gauntlet to Napoleon and called on countrymen to rise and shake off the French yoke.
On his return to France he published a severe criticism of Napoleon, comparing him to Nero and predicting the emergence of a new Tacitus.
On 30 March 1814, he wrote a pamphlet against Napoleon, titled De Buonaparte et des Bourbons, of which thousands of copies were published.
His journals, which were written for his family and intimate friends were published after his death by his son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone ( 1791 – 1828 ), who was educated by the French government and served with some distinction in the armies of Napoleon, emigrating after Waterloo to America, where he died, in New York City, on 10 October 1828 at the age of 37.
In 1806, after Napoleon's victory in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Kotzebue fled to Russia and, in the safety of his estate in Estonia, wrote many satirical articles against Napoleon Bonaparte, published in his journals Die Biene ( The Bee ) and Die Grille ( The Cricket ).
He published a memoir justifying his adherence to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and his notes and journals were arranged by his son Napoleon Hector ( 1801 – 1857 ), who published the first part ( Mémoires du maréchal-général Soult ) in 1854.
When Rückert began his literary career, Germany was engaged in her life-and-death struggle with Napoleon ; and in his first volume, Deutsche Gedichte ( German Poems ), published in 1814 under the pseudonym Freimund Raimar, he gave, particularly in the powerful Geharnischte Sonette ( Sonnets in Arms / Harsh Words ), vigorous expression to the prevailing sentiment of his countrymen.
During 1815 to 1818 appeared Napoleon, eine politische Komödie in drei Stücken ( Napoleon, a Political Comedy in Three Parts ) of which only two parts were published ; and in 1817 Der Kranz der Zeit ( The Wreath of Time ).
Immediately afterwards the sculptor published a spirited protest against the scheme already entertained by the Directory, and carried out two years later by Napoleon, of equipping at Paris a vast central museum of art with the spoils of conquered Europe.
He appears in several works of Alexandre Dumas, including The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon, not published until 2007 and in Washington Irving's short story " The Inn at Terracina ".
Other political caricatures include: Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis, a picture in which Pitt, so often Gillray's butt, figures in a favourable light ; The Bridal Night ; The Apotheosis of Hoche, which concentrates the excesses of the French Revolution in one view ; The Nursery with Britannia reposing in Peace ; The First Kiss these Ten Years ( 1803 ), another satire on the peace, which is said to have greatly amused Napoleon ; The Hand-Writing upon the Wall ; The Confederated Coalition, a swipe at the coalition which superseded the Addington ministry ; Uncorking Old Sherry ; The Plumb-Pudding in Danger ( probably the best known political print ever published ); Making Decent ; Comforts of a Bed of Roses ; View of the Hustings in Covent Garden ; Phaethon Alarmed ; and Pandora opening her Box.
Clary and Marie Tascher, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, the future wife of Napoleon and first empress of France, were also the subjects of a screen treatment written by John B. Langan and published in 1918, The Bernadotte Album, which purported to be " Founded on the memoirs of Marie Tascher and Désirée Clary.
In 1859 he published the Essay on Foreign Jurisdiction and the Extradition of Criminals, a subject to which the attempt on Napoleon III's life, the discussions on the Conspiracy Bill, and the trial of Bernard, had drawn general attention.
He also discovered a Narrative of a Prisoner of War under Napoleon ( published in Blackwood's Magazine ), an unknown pamphlet by Bishop Berkeley, some unpublished writings of William Hayley relating to Cowper, and a unique copy of the Tales of Terror.
A new article about the Turk did not turn up until 1899, when The American Chess Magazine published an account of the Turk's match with Napoleon Bonaparte.
He has recently published his autobiography I Brian: A Modern Day Napoleon.
: 16 April – Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte published anonymously.
Lebrun visited Greece in 1820, and on his return to Paris he published in 1822 an ode on the death of Napoleon, which cost him his pension.

Napoleon and by
Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.
* 1796 – The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Vittorio Amedeo III, the King of Sardinia, expanding French territory along the Mediterranean coast.
* 1809 – The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: the Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
These Oblates were dispersed by Napoleon I in 1810, while another group called the Oblates of Our Lady of Rho escaped this fate.
In honor of his work, Volta was made a count by Napoleon in 1801.
In 1815 he was commissioned by the Pope to superintend the transmission from Paris of those works of art which had formerly been conveyed thither under the direction of Napoleon.
Napoleon by Antonio Canova, Apsley House | Apsley House, London
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
It was commissioned in 1806 after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.
* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
He was soon at war with Russia, and his aid was eagerly solicited by both England and Napoleon, anxious to checkmate one another in the East.
He commanded the national guard raised by Napoleon.
Napoleon earned the hatred of the Paolists by pretending to support Paoli and then turning against him ( payment, one supposes, for Sardinia ).
The Paolists combining with the royalists defeated the French in two pitched battles and Napoleon and his family went on the run, hiding by day, while the Paolists burned their estate.
Napoleon and his mother, Laetitia, were taken out by ship in June 1793, by friends while two of the girls found refuge with other friends.
* The house in which Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 is preserved as Casa Buonaparte, and his associations with the town are everywhere emphasized by street-names and statues.
Remitted by Abdülaziz to Napoleon III in 1862.
Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.
Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.
The university was created by the archbishop Pey Berland in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the French Revolution, before reappearing in 1808 with Napoleon I. Bordeaux accommodates approximately 70, 000 students on one of the largest campuses of Europe ( 235 ha ).

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