In the Battle of Abensberg on 19 – 20 April 1809, Napoleon gained a significant victory over the Austrians under Archduke Louis of Austria and General Johann von Hiller.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

At Brienne Napoleon concentrated on studies.

Napoleon returned on leave to Ajaccio in October, became a Jacobin and began to work for the revolution.

After a brief return to his regiment Napoleon was promoted to First Lieutenant and came home again on leave in 1791.

The Paolists combining with the royalists defeated the French in two pitched battles and Napoleon and his family went on the run, hiding by day, while the Paolists burned their estate.

The airline CCM Airlines has its head office on the grounds of Ajaccio – Campo dell ' Oro Airport ( Napoleon Bonaparte Airport ).

In 1869, Abdülaziz received visits from Eugénie de Montijo, Empress consort of Napoleon III of France and other foreign monarchs on their way to the opening of the Suez Canal.

The university was created by the archbishop Pey Berland in 1441 and was abolished in 1793, during the French Revolution, before reappearing in 1808 with Napoleon I. Bordeaux accommodates approximately 70, 000 students on one of the largest campuses of Europe ( 235 ha ).

* Booknotes interview with Andrew Roberts on Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It, 12 January 2003.

At the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt on October 14, 1806 – when Napoleon invaded Prussia and defeated the massed Prussian-Saxon army commanded by Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick – he was captured, one of the 25, 000 prisoners captured that day as the Prussian army disintegrated.

The Prussians were defeated at Ligny ( south of Mont-Saint-Jean and the village of Waterloo ) by an army led personally by Napoleon, but Napoleon's failure to destroy the Prussian forces led to his defeat a few days later at the Battle of Waterloo, when the Prussian forces unexpectedly arrived on his right flank late in the afternoon to support the Anglo-Dutch forces pressing his front.

He relied on his own experiences, contemporary writings about Napoleon, and on historical sources.

When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 13 Vendémiaire, 1795 — October 5, 1795, in the calendar used in France, at the time — Napoleon ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the " whiff of grapeshot ".

King Mohammad Yaqub Khan with Britain's Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari | Sir Pierre Cavagnari on May 26, 1879, when the Treaty of Gandamak was signed.

Although Napoleon had crossed the Alps on a mule, he requested that he be portrayed " calm upon a fiery steed ".

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was already First Consul of the French Republic ( Premier Consul de la République française ) for life, declared himself Emperor of the French ( Empereur des Français ) on 18 May 1804, thus creating the Empire of the French ( Empire des Français ).

Napoleon relinquished the title of Emperor of the French on 6 April and again on 11 April 1814.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

France and Prussia had been combatants, with France on the losing side and Napoleon I exiled to St. Helena.

At the Battle of Leipzig of Nations the Saxon as well as the Polish troops fought on the side of Napoleon.

The Carbonari condemned Napoleon III — who, as a young man, had fought on the side of the Carbonari — to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in assassinating him in 1858.

During 1861 to 1862, Napoleon III positioned France to intervene in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy.

Napoleon, Missouri is located in the northwestern corner of Lafayette County, Missouri and bordered on the north side by the Missouri River and on the south side by U. S. Hwy 24 and on the west side by Jackson County, Missouri.

On the French side, the gain of the Raevsky redoubt cost them large casualties and, after that, Napoleon himself ordered his troops to retreat to the starting line.

When King Charles was told that his son Ferdinand was appealing to Napoleon against Godoy, he took the minister's side.

Having been effectively given insider information about which side to back in the coming revolution, the Rougons then make a series of seemingly bold moves to show their loyal and steadfast support for Napoleon III, winning the admiration of the most influential people in the town, mostly royalists who are themselves afraid of showing too much commitment for fear of backing the " wrong horse " and losing their standing and fortune.

The new street that Napoleon Bonaparte pierced through the heart of Paris took for one side the north wing of the Louvre, which Napoleon extended, and the Tuileries Gardens.

While battle was raging on the western side of the battlefield, some 10 kilometers to the east, Maréchal Davout was preparing his attack, the manoeuvre with which Napoleon intended to win the battle.

When Napoleon returned from exile the following year, Masséna refused to commit to either side and kept his area quiet.

Two bullies — Philippeaux ( Petit Vidal ) and Peccaduc ( Roblin )— schoolyard antagonists of Napoleon, are leading the larger side, outnumbering the side that Napoleon fights for.

During the Second Empire, which evolved from the Second Republic, the discreet opposition of the Orléanists, exercised for the most part with infinite dexterity and tact, by reticences, omissions, and historical studies in which the Empire was attacked under foreign or ancient names, was a perpetual thorn in the side of Napoleon III.

Erich's mother, Klara Jeanette Henriette von Tempelhoff ( 1840 – 1914 ), was the daughter of the noble but impoverished Friedrich August Napoleon von Tempelhoff ( 1804 – 1868 ), and his wife Jeannette Wilhelmine von Dziembowska ( 1816 – 1854 ) – she from a Germanised Polish landed family on her father's side, and through whom Erich was a remote descendant of the Dukes of Silesia and the Marquesses and Electors of Brandenburg.

An obelisk on the south side of the village in direction Wackernheim, marks the road begun by Charlemagne, and completed by Napoleon.

Both parties had fought Napoleon side by side in the Peninsular War.

Following the Treaty of Lunéville ( 1801 ), the duke of Württemberg was allowed by Napoleon to occupy the town and several other minor states as a compensation for territories on the left side of the Rhine that fell to France.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark – Norway was attacked by Great Britain and forced into the conflict on the side of Napoleon and France.

France was also required to pay an indemnity ; the indemnity figure was calculated, on the basis of population, as the precise equivalent of the indemnity which Napoleon I imposed on Prussia in 1807.

Larrey was present at the battle of Spires, between the French and Prussians, and was distressed by the fact that wounded soldiers were not picked up by the numerous ambulances ( which Napoleon required to be stationed two and half miles back from the scene of battle ) until after hostilities had ceased, and set about developing a new ambulance system.

This required time and, with the Austrians from III Korps menacingly moving forward, Napoleon counted on Maréchal Bessières's cavalry to allow Masséna to disengage and the grand battery to deploy.

The desire for change came from the ambition of Napoleon III to gain greater influence in Europe, which required a challenge to the British at sea.

By direct application to Napoleon, Scharnhorst evaded the decree of 26 September 1810, which required all foreigners to leave the Prussian service forthwith, but when in 1811 – 1812 France forced Prussia into an alliance against Russia and Prussia despatched an auxiliary army to serve under Napoleon's orders, Scharnhorst left Berlin on unlimited leave of absence.

Napoleon also surrounded himself with the soldiers of his elite guard, required to be 1. 83 m ( 6 ft ) or taller, making him look smaller in comparison.

After the final defeat of Napoleon, Charles IV, Maria Louisa and Pepita returned to Rome, but the Pope required that Godoy continue to live at Pesaro.

However, the terms of the decree required Élisa to enforce the decisions of Napoleon and his ministers and denied her the power to modify any of these decisions.