In making 1927's Napoléon, director Abel Gance wrapped a camera and much of the lens in sponge padding so that it could be punched by other actors to portray the leading character's point of view during a fist fight, part of a larger snowball fight between schoolboys including young Napoleon.

Napoleon then sends a diversionary infantry attack against Wellington's right flank — the Chateau of Hougoumont — with the view to stretch the Allied line and to " see the quality of this English aristocrat ".

On arriving at Paris three days after Waterloo, Napoleon still clung to the hope of a concerted national resistance ; but the temper of the legislative chambers, and of the public generally, did not favour his view.

Then the Netherlands were finally reunited with the origins of the " alluvial deposits of the French rivers ," of which the country in the view of Napoleon consists.

Starting on 30 July 1809, a British armed force of 39, 000 men landed on Walcheren, the Walcheren Campaign, with a view to assisting the Austrians in their war against Napoleon, and attacking the French fleet moored at Flushing ( Vlissingen ).

Its leading elements came into view at 17: 00, that is to say, earlier than Napoleon expected.

This view is certainly suggestive, but incomplete ; it is largely true when applied to the men of the French Revolution, inexperienced or mediocre as they were, and incompetent to develop the enormous enterprises of Napoleon I.

Napoleon said of him that, his genius grew bolder as it grew older, and a later author, the duc d ' Aumale ( Histoire des princes de la maison de Condé ), took the same view when he wrote: " Pour le connaître il faut le suivre jusqu ' à Sulzbach.

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greatly amused Napoleon ; The Hand-Writing upon the Wall ; The Confederated Coalition, a swipe at the coalition which superseded the Addington ministry ; Uncorking Old Sherry ; The Plumb-Pudding in Danger ( probably the best known political print ever published ); Making Decent ;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.

In the euphoria of victory Foch was regularly compared to Napoleon and Caesar ; postwar historians took a less sanguine view of Foch's talents as commander, particularly as that idea took root that his military doctrines had set the stage for the futile and costly offensives of 1914 in which French armies suffered devastating losses.

Freund's view was that Louis Napoleon was the only real revolutionist in 1848.

In the fast-changing political scenario of his time, Monti appears not to live up to his ideals: he is blamed from the political point of view for being first an opposer to the French revolution, then an open supporter of Napoleon, then eventually a supporter of the Austrian Empire.

He entered into communication with general Napoleon Bonaparte, to whom he sent a snuff-box made of the root of a Bay Laurel taken from a ruined temple of Apollo, and eventually he set out with a view to meeting the general of the Army of Italy in Venice.

In his Bonaparte ( 1978 ), he takes a more critical view of Napoleon Bonaparte than is customary, portraying him almost as a Mediterranean bandit keen to dish out crowns and honours to cronies and members of his blood family, and stressing how much many of his most famous successes owed to bluff and luck ( e. g. the fortuitous arrival of General Louis Desaix at the Battle of Marengo ).

In the period of political reaction and repression after the fall of Napoleon, when the liberal-minded, educated and prosperous middle and upper classes of European societies found the romantic revolutionary ideals of 1789 – 92 repressed by the restoration of old regimes at home, the idea of the re-creation of a Greek state on the very territories that were sanctified by their view of Antiquity — which was reflected even in the furnishings of their own parlors and the contents of their bookcases — offered an ideal, set at a romantic distance.

Although he initially perceived this constellation with admiration, and viewed Russia as the potential savior of Europe from Napoleon, his view changed in the mid 1840s, perhaps as a result of his encounter with Fyodor Tyutchev, and he soon came to see Russia as the major threat to Western Europe.

France under the rule of Napoleon was in Fitzwilliam's view was less revolutionary: " He may continue the use of revolutionary jargon, but he will check all revolutionary practices.

This deliberately antagonistic declaration encapsulates Hugo's view: Louis-Napoléon was far removed from the great military leader that his uncle, Napoleon Bonaparte, had been.

Inspired by Ancient Roman models, such as the Borghese Vase and the Medici Vase, the Waterloo Vase was carved with bas-reliefs of George III ( long removed from public view ) on his throne, Napoleon unhorsed, and various allegorical figures.

Napoleon on his side required Persia to declare war against Great Britain to expel all Britons from her territory, and to come to an understanding with the Afghans with a view to a joint Franco-Perso-Afghan invasion of India.

In the 1966 song, They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa !, Napoleon XIV fictionalized the public's view of the symbolic relationship between such institutions and white coats in the following lyrics:

Eventually to quell the furore the emperor Napoleon III came to view the rejected works and then asked the committee to reconsider its selection.

There was a light in Black's front room, but drawn curtains prevented any view of the interior.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

Ann was entranced with the view, as were her husband and friends.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.

The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.

From the point of view of the applicants, less time was wasted in being evaluated -- and they got a meal out of it as well as some insights into their performances.

There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.

In this view, supported by only three members of the Court, a power denied by the specific provisions of Article 3, was granted by the generality of Article 1.

In a brief chapter dealing with `` Various Other Diagnoses '', he quotes isolated passages from some writers whose views seem to corroborate his own, and finds it `` most remarkable that a critical view of twentieth-century society was already held by a number of thinkers living in the nineteenth.

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.

That sort of braggadocio, for that sort of reason, in the view of Torrio and Capone, was a nonsense.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

The Chinese world view during the Han dynasty, when the Lo Shu seems to have been at the height of its popularity, was based in large part on the teachings of the Yin-Yang and Five-Elements School, which was traditionally founded by Tsou Yen.

Now this 1920 view of the atom was on the whole a discouraging picture.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.