" Ney is instantly swayed and marches with Napoleon and his former soldiers.

Wellington has retreated from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, but Ney returns to Napoleon to deliver his report on the Quatre Bras engagement, which angers Napoleon, who had expected Ney to pursue Wellington, who is now free to choose his own battlefield.

Napoleon, who agrees with Ney that they had fought with muddy boots previously, alone among his generals realizes that each delay brings the Prussians closer.

While Napoleon has taken a short leave from the field — again stricken with stomach pain — Ney sees the movement and believes the British are retreating, and orders the French cavalry to advance on them.

Napoleon returns and angrily rebukes his marshals for allowing Ney to attack without infantry support.

Meanwhile, Napoleon, surrounded by Ney, de la Bedoyère and his marshals, is seen leaving the battlefield in his coach, knowing that this time his days as Emperor really have ended.

Napoleon took the reserve of the Army of the North, and reunited his forces with those of Ney to pursue Wellington's army, after he ordered Marshal Grouchy to take the right wing of the Army of the North and stop the Prussians re-grouping.

Wittgenstein and Blücher took the bait, continuing to press Ney until they ran into the " hook " Napoleon had prepared.

" Determined not to commit this valuable final reserve so far away from France, Napoleon rejected another such request, this time from Marshal Ney.

Napoleon had not recalled Ney until 08: 00 on the morning of the 8th when he realized that the Russians intended to fight.

Napoleon, who was preparing to launch a crucial attack at the centre of Blücher's line, was very surprised by this news, because at 15: 30 he had sent Comte de la Bédoyère with a written note to Marshal Ney at Quatre Bras ordering him to send d ' Erlon's I Corps to attack the rear of the right Prussian flank.

Napoleon, with the reserve and the right wing of the Army of the North, made a late start on 17 June and joined Ney at Quatre Bras at 13: 00 to attack Wellington's army, but found the position empty.

In the Battle of Bautzen ( 20 – 21 May 1813 ) a combined Russian / Prussian army was pushed back by Napoleon, but escaped destruction, some sources claim, because Michel Ney failed to block their retreat.

Following Marmont at a short distance were further reinforcements, two Guard infantry divisions ( Friant and Curial ) under the command of Marshal Ney and with them was Napoleon himself.

On 5 October, Napoleon ordered Ney to join Lannes, Soult, and Murat in concentrating and crossing the Danube at Donauwörth.

Marshal Ney, now one of Louis ' key commanders, had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, but on 14 March, Ney joined Napoleon with 6, 000 men.

In the 1807 campaign Ney arrived with reinforcements in time to save Napoleon from defeat at Eylau, although the battle ended as a draw.

After being cut off from the main army, Ney managed to rejoin it, which delighted Napoleon.

* 1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.

Gustave Courbet's attempt, during the 1871 Paris Commune, to dismantle the Vendôme column, a symbol of the past Napoleon III authoritarian Empire, was one of the most celebrated events of vandalism.

* Eight are killed and 142 wounded in Paris in a failed assassination attempt on Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( 1858 ).

With Napoleon III personally leading the army with Marshal MacMahon in attendance, they led the Army of Châlons in a left-flanking march northeast towards the Belgian border in an attempt to avoid the Prussians before striking south to link up with Bazaine.

The Battle of Waterloo put a definite end to Napoleon Bonaparte's attempt to return to France and thus secured the Bourbon restoration

Despite British backing for the military action, the intervention was widely seen as an attempt to win back influence in Spain, which had been lost to the British under Napoleon.

After escaping an assassination attempt in Vienna while negotiating the Treaty of Schönbrunn on 12 October 1809, Emperor Napoleon decided that he needed an heir to cement his relatively young Empire.

This forced the opponent to either march to battle with Napoleon or attempt to find an escape route around the army.

Fear was high in the United States that Napoleon would attempt to close the Mississippi River to American trade.

He foils an attempt by veterans of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to free Napoleon from his captivity on Saint Helena, captures a slave ship, and encounters Simón Bolívar's army.

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte's 23, 000 Frenchmen defeated an attack of 28, 000 Austrians under Feldzeugmeister Jozsef Alvinczi, ending Austria's fourth and final attempt to relieve the Siege of Mantua.

Meanwhile, having retreated to the island of Lobau after the battle of Aspern-Essling, Napoleon knew that he had failed in his attempt to cross the Danube and was so astonished by the severity of the setback that he remained in uncostumary inaction for 36 hours.

Napoleon reckoned that he would need careful planning and superior forces, before he could attempt another crossing of the Danube.

Napoleon knew that he had sustained high losses during the evening attacks and that he had failed in his attempt at a quick breakthrough.

In 1866 the Austro-Prussian War broke out, and during the critical weeks which followed the attempt of Napoleon to intervene between Prussia and Austria, he accompanied the Prussian headquarters in the advance on Vienna, and during a visit to Vienna he helped to arrange the preliminaries of the armistice signed at Nikolsburg.

In an attempt to junction with Tipu Sultan, Napoleon invaded Ottoman Egypt in the year 1798, causing a furor in Istanbul.

On arriving at Paris, three days after Waterloo, Napoleon still clung to the hope of concerting national resistance ; but the temper of the chambers and of the public generally forbade any such attempt.

During the Second Empire, headed by Napoleon III, an attempt was made to establish a colonial-type protectorate in Mexico, but this came to little, and the French were forced to abandon the experiment.

Dundas's main task was to frustrate any possibility that Napoleon might exploit his alliance with Russia to make some attempt on British India.

With the Peace of Amiens, Napoleon decided to attempt to regain control of Saint Domingue.

Napoleon didn't have the resources to attempt an invasion of the United Kingdom or to decisively defeat the Royal Navy at sea.

But the Franco-Prussian War forced Napoleon III to take back his soldiers in his own ultimately unsuccessful attempt to defend his imperial throne.

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.