The career of Charles 12, is obviously very similar to that of Napoleon.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

* 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration ; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.

* 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.

The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.

Since the fall of Napoleon ( 1815 ), the sculpture representing Peace is interpreted as commemorating the Peace of 1815.

* 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.

In the one he is unreal, in the other he displayed, along with the greatest skill, a vivid activity which made him for long the most formidable opponent of Napoleon.

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.

The potential of a successful engagement at sea to change the course of history is underscored by the list of French army officers carried aboard the convoy who later formed the core of the generals and marshals under Emperor Napoleon.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

Napoleon I is the most prominent name associated with the Bonaparte family because he conquered much of the Western world during the early part of the 19th century.

Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the first monarch proclaiming himself as an embodiment of the nation, rather than as a divinely-appointed ruler ; this interpretation of monarchy is germane to continental constitutional monarchies.

Another is the smoothbore 12 pounder Napoleon, which was renowned for its sturdiness, reliability, firepower, flexibility, relatively light weight, and range of.

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

Goya's involvement with the court of the " Intruder king ", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known ; he did paint works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting.

Given the differences of opinion within the Lord Aberdeen cabinet over the direction of foreign policy with regard to relations between Britain and the French under Napoleon III, it is not surprising that debate raged within the government as Louis Bonaparte, now assuming the title of Emperor Napoleon III of France.

* 1815: Following the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo the Treaty of Vienna is signed.

* Napoleon, a grade of cognac

* Extra designates a minimum of 6 years of age, this grade is usually older than a Napoleon or an XO.

# Légion d ' honneur, founded on May 19, 1802, by Napoleon Bonaparte, and is given as fifth grade and is the highest decoration of France.

Even though the 67-year-old General Kutuzov was not seen by his contemporaries as the equal of Napoleon he possessed the ability to muster a good defense.

Napoleon took great interest in the library and among other things issued an order that all books in provincial libraries not possessed by the Bibliothèque Nationale should be forwarded to it, subject to replacement by exchanges of equal value from the duplicate collections, making it possible, as Napoleon said, to find a copy of any book in France in the National Library.

But it probably pleased Mme de Staël to quite an equal degree that Napoleon should apparently put forth his power to crush her and fail.

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At the end of the 1700s, when the French revolutionaries turned to several Roman Magistrature names for their new institutions, the three-headed collective Head of State was named Consulat, a term in use for two-headed magistratures since Antiquity ; furthermore it included a " First Consul " who was not an equal, but the de facto solo head of state and government – a position Napoleon Bonaparte chose to convert openly into the First French Empire.

In this year, St. Cyr's relation with the Emperor warmed as Napoleon commented that St. Cyr had no match in all of the marshalate and was the equal of Napoleon himself in defence.

David's pupil, Antoine-Jean Gros, had, like David, represented " the grandiosities of a school irredeemably associated with a lost cause ", but in some major works, he had given equal prominence to Napoleon and anonymous dead or dying figures.

The well-known " End of History " thesis advanced the idea that ideological history in a limited sense had ended with the French Revolution and the regime of Napoleon and that there was no longer a need for violent struggle to establish the " rational supremacy of the regime of rights and equal recognition.

The Marxist theory of " Left " and " Right " Bonapartism can be considered an illustration of what McLynn ( Napoleon, Pimlico, 1998, Conclusion, p667 ) refers to as Napoleon I's appeal in equal measure " to both the Right and the Left ", and what Vincent Cronin describes as " middle of the way ", or " moderate " government ( Napoleon, 1994, HarperCollins, Ch 19, p301 ).

He enjoyed the confidence of Louis Bonaparte, when king of Holland, and, after the incorporation of the Netherlands in the French empire, in an equal degree of the emperor Napoleon.

One after another the German states switched to oppose Napoleon, but he rejected peace terms.

Unable to decisively engage and defeat the standing Russian armies, Napoleon attempted to force the Tsar to terms by capturing Moscow at the onset of winter.

The French equivalent ( the Restoration ), or the European Restoration, are also used as umbrella terms for such restorations following the fall of Napoleon in 1814, such as:

The war ended when General Napoleon Bonaparte forced the Austrians to accept his terms in the Treaty of Campo Formio.

Though Napoleon had a warlike reputation, his policies in his first years as First Consul were aimed at restoring peace in Europe, be it at terms favorable to France.

Because Napoleon had not fulfilled the terms of his agreement with Piedmont, he would not gain Savoy and Nice.

Under the terms of a peace treaty signed in Vienna on October 12, Emperor Franz Joseph had already agreed to cede Venetia to Napoleon III in exchange for non-intervention in the Austro-Prussian War and thus Napoleon III ceded Venetia to Italy on October 19 in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.

However, Palmerston found the peace terms too soft on Russia and so persuaded Napoleon III of France to break off the peace negotiations.

The public terms of Tilsit mentioned the warm feelings between Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia, but the secret terms addressed more substantial issues: France permitted Russia to do as it wished with the Ottoman Empire in return for France gaining the Dalmatian coast and the Ionian Islands ; Russia gained a free hand in Finland ; and Alexander also agreed to join the Continental System if the war with Britain did not end soon.

Napoleon ordered a raid to seize a subversive, anti-Napoleonic bookseller named Johann Philipp Palm, and made a final attempt to secure terms with Britain by offering her Hanover, which infuriated Prussia.

After Prussia's defeat at the hands of Napoleon in 1806, the territory was lost under the terms of the Treaty of Tilsit and included within the new Kingdom of Westphalia.

Haugwitz was despatched to Vienna with the document ; but before he arrived the Battle of Austerlitz had been fought, and the Prussian plenipotentiary had to make terms with Napoleon.

After the defeat of Napoleon and the restoration of the House of Savoy's dominion over Piedmont ( under the terms of the Congress of Vienna ), Maistre returned in 1817 to Turin, and served there as magistrate and minister of state until his death.

For a time he was not on speaking terms with the pope ; and Napoleon recalled him from Rome.

While the terms of the Treaty were the bare minimum that the British government could accept, Napoleon Bonaparte would not have agreed to any terms more favourable to the British, and the British government had reached a state of financial collapse, owing to war expenditure, the loss of Continental markets for British goods, and two successive failed harvests that had led to widespread famine and social unrest, rendering peace a necessity.

When Napoleon Bonaparte came to power in 1799, he began the process of coming back to terms with the Catholic Church.

Resigning in 1796, he was brought back into the service in 1800 as aide-de-camp to Napoleon, with whom, as a cadet, Lauriston had been on friendly terms.

After France had been defeated and Napoleon was exiled to Elba, the Treaty of Paris of 1814 settled the terms of the peace, in which Guadeloupe, having previously been a French possession, was returned to France.

The Duchy of Warsaw (; ; ; ) was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit.

Mehul was on friendly terms with Napoleon and became one of the first Frenchmen to receive the Légion d ' honneur.

Her legacy became cemented after her extraordinary 1806 meeting with French Emperor Napoleon I at Tilsit – she met with the emperor to plead unsuccessfully for favorable terms after Prussia's disastrous losses in the Napoleonic Wars.