In 1799, British ships harassed Bonaparte's army as it marched east and north through Palestine, and played a crucial part in Bonaparte's defeat at the Siege of Acre, when the barges carrying the siege train were captured and the French storming parties were bombarded by British ships anchored offshore.

Cannon were crucial in Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power, and continued to play an important role in his army in later years.

Napoleon Bonaparte's first victory as an army commander.

** Battle of Almonacid de Toledo: A poorly led Spanish army is defeated by King Joseph Bonaparte's French army.

In 1797 he brought reinforcements from the Rhine to Bonaparte's army in Italy, distinguishing himself greatly at the passage of the Tagliamento, and in 1798 served as ambassador to Vienna, but had to quit his post owing to the disturbances caused by his hoisting the tricolour over the embassy.

Became Prince Royal of Holland on his brother's death, and was King Lodewijk II for five days between his father's abdication and the fall of Holland to Napoleon Bonaparte's invading army.

His father had fought as an officer against Napoleon Bonaparte's invading army.

Meanwhile, after the arrival of Desaix, 6, 000 men would reinforce Bonaparte's army.

A last-gasp victory in reality, Marengo was mythologised in an army bulletin and three increasingly glamourised " Official Reports " during Bonaparte's reign.

In the spring campaign of 1797 ( invasion of Austria ) he commanded the detached left wing of Bonaparte's army in the Tyrol with great distinction, fighting his way through the mountains to rejoin his chief in Styria.

* Napoleon Bonaparte's army suffered heavy losses ( about 36, 000 ) when crossing the Berezina in November 1812 during his retreat from Russia ( see Battle of Berezina ).

The Battle of Arcole or Battle of Arcola ( 15 – 17 November 1796 ) saw a bold manoeuvre by Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy to outflank the Austrian army under József Alvinczi and cut its line of retreat.

Alvinczi planned to execute a two-pronged offensive against Bonaparte's army.

Earlier they had been used in Napoleon Bonaparte's army, with a chevron awarded for each seven years of enlistment.

The Battle of Abukir ( or Abukir ) was Napoleon Bonaparte's decisive victory over Seid Mustafa Pasha's Ottoman army on 25 July 1799 during the French invasion of Egypt ( 1798 ).

Additional Austrian forces arrived whilst Bonaparte's army was weakened by disease and his supply lines threatened by rebellion.

* 1792-1797: Napoleon Bonaparte's first campaign in Italy during the French Revolution, in which the French army of 37, 000 men defeated 52, 000 Piedmontese and Habsburg troops with rapid advances that prevented the two nations ' armies from combining.

As Bonaparte's fleet crossed the Mediterranean, it was pursued by a British force under Nelson, sent from the British fleet in the Tagus, to establish the purpose of the French expedition and defeat it.

The French Directory agreed with Bonaparte's plans, although a major factor in their decision was a desire to see the politically ambitious Bonaparte and the fiercely loyal veterans of his Italian campaigns as far from France as possible.

Bonaparte's most immediate concern however was with his own officers, who began to question the wisdom of the entire expedition.

David's student Antoine-Jean Gros for example, was made a Baron and honored by Napoleon Bonaparte's court.

Rossini's father was sympathetic to the French Revolution and welcomed Napoleon Bonaparte's troops when they arrived in northern Italy.

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

This policy was summed up in Bonaparte's often-quoted phrase " La carrière ouverte aux talents ", careers open to the talented, or as more freely translated by Thomas Carlyle, " the tools to him that can handle them ".

Oscar's mother was Désirée Clary, Napoleon Bonaparte's first fiancée.

In 1807 Portugal refused Napoleon Bonaparte's demand to accede to the Continental System of embargo against the United Kingdom ; a French invasion under General Junot followed, and Lisbon was captured on 8 December 1807.

A concern of Bonaparte's was the possibility of arbitrary arrest, or excessive remand ( imprisonment prior to a trial ).

Engels characterized the coup as " comical " and referred to it as occurring on " the 18th Brumaire "-- the date of the coup according to the 1799 republican calendar of France under Napoleon I. Marx was later to incorporate this comically ironic characterization of Louis Bonaparte's coup into his book about the coup.

Louis Bonaparte's early career was spent in the Army, and he served with Napoleon in Egypt.

Louis Bonaparte's reign of the Netherlands was short-lived, however, which was due to two factors.

Louis XVIII was not particularly worried by Bonaparte's excursion, as such small numbers of troops could be easily overcome.

Baroness Jenny von Gustedt, born as Jeromée Catharina Rabe von Pappenheim ( 1811 – 1890 ), one of Jérôme Bonaparte's illegitimate children, was the grandmother of the German Socialist and Feminist writer Lily Braun.

She was Jérôme Bonaparte's second wife, married on 22 August 1807 in the Royal Palace at Fontainebleau, France.

After Bonaparte's death the house was later owned by bootleggers Peter and Michael Kelly.

As president of the Council of Five Hundred — which he removed to the suburban security of Saint-Cloud — Lucien Bonaparte's combination of bravado and disinformation was crucial to the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire ( date based on the French Revolutionary Calendar ) in which General Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate.

Still Bonaparte's growing popularity in France meant that the bill of impeachment was defeated on 12 June 1849.

Prince Eugène was adopted by Napoleon on 12 January 1806 ; while excluded from the French empire's succession, he was given presumptive rights for him and his descendants in the male line to the throne of Italy in the absence of a second son of Napoleon on 16 February 1806, and hence on 20 December 1807 given the title of Prince de Venise (' Prince of Venice '), which had been instituted by article 9 of the decree of 30 March 1806 ( when the former Austrian province of Venice was united to Bonaparte's kingdom of Italy ) for the Heir Presumptive to Napoleon in Italy.

The starting point of archaeological exploration in Memphis was Napoléon Bonaparte's great foray into Egypt in 1798.

While the vessel de Lesseps sailed to Egypt in was in quarantine at the Alexandrian lazaretto, M. Mimaut, consul-general of France at Alexandria, sent him several books, among which was the memoir written upon the Suez Canal, according to Napoleon Bonaparte's instructions, by the civil engineer Jacques-Marie Le Père, one of the scientific members of the French expedition.

The acquaintance ripened into intimacy ; Marmont became General Bonaparte's aide-de-camp, remained with him during his disgrace and accompanied him to Italy and Egypt, winning distinction and promotion to general of brigade.

The town of Rashid came to be known in the West as Rosette ( Rosetta ), the name by which it was referred to by the French during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt.

It is named after the Rue des Pyramides, which commemorates the victory in 1798 of Napoleon Bonaparte's Armée d ’ Orient over the Mamluks of Murad Bey in the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt.

At Bonaparte's invitation he joined the expedition to Egypt as part of the arts and literature section of the Institut d ' Égypte, and thus found the opportunity of gathering the materials for his most important literary and artistic work.

On Napoleon Bonaparte's return from Egypt in 1799, Maret joined the general's party which came to power with the 18 Brumaire Coup ( 9 November – 10 ).

The leaders of the Directory in Paris feared Napoleon Bonaparte's popularity after his victories in Italy, so they were relieved when he proposed to depart France and mount an expedition to Egypt to gain further glory.

Yarker claimed a history going to Bonaparte's armies in Egypt, and traced the development of the Rite until his present day.

By 1798 Dolomieu had developed an international reputation as one of the leading geologists in the world and was invited to join the scientific expedition accompanying Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt, as part of the natural history and physics section of the Institut d ' Égypte.