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Napoleon and offered
When Napoleon began his blockade of the British Empire ( see Continental System ), British steel became unavailable, and Napoleon offered a prize of four thousand francs to anyone who could replicate the British process.
Following the 1870 collapse of the empire of Emperor Napoleon III, Henri was offered a restored throne.
By the 1860s, butter had become so in demand in France that Emperor Napoleon III offered prize money for an inexpensive substitute to supplement France's inadequate butter supplies.
Emperor Napoleon I offered him the position of adjutant, but he refused.
The Princess offered Gautier a sinecure as her librarian in 1868, a position that gave him access to the court of Napoleon III.
Napoleon was offered to keep the throne in February 1814, on the condition that France returned to its 1792 frontiers, but he refused.
* Napoleon is a grade equal to XO in terms of minimum age, but it is generally marketed in-between VSOP and XO in the product range offered by the producers.
Napoleon, having realized that his plans could not come to fruition, offered to sell the United States the entire territory of Louisiana, including Craighead County, for $ 23, 213, 568.
When Francis I offered an armistice on the 27th, Napoleon expressed great enthusiasm in accepting it.
First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte offered a plan of operations based on outflanking the Austrians by a push from Switzerland, but Moreau declined to follow it.
" David Friedländer and his friends in Berlin described it as a spectacle that Napoleon offered to the Parisians.
Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France offered a prize to anyone who could make a satisfactory substitute for butter, suitable for use by the armed forces and the lower classes.
His refusal of the cross of the Legion of Honour offered to him by Napoleon III angered those in power but made him immensely popular with those who opposed the current regime, and in 1871 under the revolutionary Paris Commune he was placed in charge of all the Paris art museums and saved them from looting mobs.
Napoleon III offered attempts at some degree of parliamentary control of the executive, though few regarded his regime as genuinely parliamentary and democratic.
After Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup, he refused the pardon offered by the French Consulate.
Bowling Green offered four possible sites and became one of four finalists including Fremont, Napoleon, and Van Wert.
Napoleon offered liberal monetary rewards to soldiers and laborers who could perform difficult portages in a timely fashion.
Napoleon I and Napoleon III each offered reliquaries for the crown of thorns.
It also counted on the active support of Napoleon III, particularly after Prussia, foreseeing an inevitable armed conflict with France, made friendly overtures to Russia in the Alvensleben Convention and offered assistance in suppressing the Polish uprising.
Reluctant to entrust d ' Orsay with any affairs of state, Napoleon III finally offered him the position of director of the Beaux-Arts.
Napoleon offered “ his good office ” to the United States in resolving the conflict with the South and Dayton was directed by Seward to acknowledge that “ if any mediation were at all admissible, it would be his own that we should seek or accept .”
During the period, Boulanger was in Switzerland, where he met with Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte II, technically a Bonapartist, who offered his full support to the cause.

Napoleon and sell
( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.
Out of anger against Spain and the unique opportunity to sell something that was useless and not truly his yet, Napoleon decided to sell the entire territory.
One problem, however, was too important to argue down convincingly: Napoleon did not have the right to sell Louisiana to the United States.
William III, king of the Netherlands, which still had sovereignty over Luxembourg, was willing to sell the grand duchy to France's Emperor Napoleon III in order to retain Limbourg but backed out when Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck expressed opposition.
France regained control of Louisiana through the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800 but Napoleon Bonaparte I decided to sell the territory to the United States in 1803.
A Franco-Spanish alliance treaty returned Louisiana to France in 1801, allowing Napoleon Bonaparte to sell it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
When Napoleon sought to sell the French territory of Louisiana to the United States in 1802, President Jefferson was concerned over the political consequences of acquiring a large tract of what was perceived then as predominantly southern territory, as well as a possible lack of constitutional authority to make the purchase.
Jefferson discovered that Napoleon was willing to sell the entire territory to help fund his wars in Europe.
Similarly, as a result of debts incurred fighting the slave revolt, Napoleon was forced to sell the American government its territories in Louisiana at a heavily discounted price.
The writer was known, and it was in this connection that Napoleon referred to him as a " wretched scribe named Gentz, one of those men without honor who sell themselves for money ".
As Jefferson deliberated, Napoleon unexpectedly offered to sell Louisiana to the United States for approximately $ 15 million.
Napoleon agreed to sell the Louisiana colony to the United States, which would double the size of the new republic.

Napoleon and entire
In the circumstances of the Wars of the French Revolution and with Napoleon, which were energized by a rising spirit of nationalism, he emphasized the need for states to involve their entire populations in the conduct of war.
By the time Madison was standing for reelection, the Peninsular War in Spain had spread, while at the same time Napoleon invaded Russia, and the entire continent again descended into war.
Although the foreign minister Talleyrand opposed the plan, on April 10, 1803, Napoleon told the Treasury Minister François de Barbé-Marbois that he was considering selling the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States.
* October 17 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon after being surrounded.
Napoleon had left Berthier with only 170, 000 men to defend France's entire eastern frontier ( in the 1790s, 800, 000 men had carried out the same task, but holding a much shorter front ).
" The Louvre, newly filled with booty seized by Napoleon in his campaigns in Belgium, Holland, and Italy, provided French artists of the early 19th century with an unprecedented opportunity to study, compare, and copy masterworks from antiquity and from the entire history of European painting.
As Napoleon was preparing an army for his invasion of Russia, he wanted troops from the entire region under his control, the allied border countries.
Napoleon finally invaded Holland on 1 July 1810, forcing Louis to abdicate the same day, and annexed the entire Kingdom of Holland on 9 July.
Every hour that Napoleon could have attacked earlier as he did, would have been is his favour, but the French could not attack in the morning for the simple reason that the entire army had not yet taken its battle positions.
" However, in the Bulletin de l ' armée issued the following day, Napoleon sought to counterbalance Kellermann's charge with Jean-Baptiste Bessières's: " The chef de brigade Bessières, in front of the reckless grenadiers of the guard, executed a charge with as much activity as valour and penetrated the line of the enemy cavalry ; this resulted in the entire rout of the army.
Withdrawing without permission and without notifying Napoleon of his action, Bernadotte irresponsibly compromised the entire French position on the left.
But the defeats of at the Battle of Sävar and Battle of Ratan August 19 and August 20, 1809 broke the spirit of the Swedish Army ; and peace was obtained by the surrender of the entire Finland, the Åland islands, " the fore-posts of Stockholm ," as Napoleon described them, and Västerbotten and Lappland as far as the rivers of Torneå and Muonio at the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, on September 17, 1809.
By the next day, on 2 September, Napoleon III ordered the white flag to be run up and surrendered himself and the entire Army of Châlons to Moltke and the Prussian King.
This organization was based on the French model, as the entire Duchy was in fact created by Napoleon and based on French ideas, although departments were divided into Polish powiats ( counties ).
As the entire Spanish world rejected the new Bonaparte Dynasty ( Napoleon gave the crown of Spain to his brother, the King of Naples and Sicily ), Spain itself fell into chaos and it took almost a year for a coordinated, centralized provisional government ( the Supreme Central and Governmental Junta of Spain and the Indies ) to form.
By 16 October, Napoleon had surrounded Mack's entire army at Ulm, and three days later Mack surrendered with 30, 000 men, 18 generals, 65 guns, and 40 standards.
Some 160, 000 French soldiers fought against Prussia, ( increasing in number as the campaign went on, with reinforcements arriving across the Wesel bridgehead from the peripheral theatre surrounding the recently minted Kingdom of Holland ), advancing with such speed that Napoleon was able to destroy as an effective military force the entire quarter of a million-strong Prussian army.
When Napoleon realised that significant Austrian forces were already over the Isar and were marching towards the Danube, he insisted that the entire French army deploy behind the Ilm River in a bataillon carré within 48 hours, all in hopes of undoing Berthier's mistakes and achieving a successful concentration.
Napoleon knew there was fighting in Davout's sector and had already devised a new strategy that he hoped would beat the Austrians: while the Austrians attacked to the north, Masséna's corps, later augmented by Oudinot's forces, would strike southeast towards Freising and Landshut in hopes of rolling up the entire Austrian line and relieving the pressure on Davout.
After a successful crossing, Napoleon ordered an attack along the entire line so as to prevent the Austrians from escaping during the night.
( By contrast, the entire Louisiana Territory was purchased from Napoleon I of France for just over $ 23, 000, 000.

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