In 1803, Napoleon ordered the fusion of the cantons of Aargau, Baden and Fricktal.

In 1870, in the war against the Prussians, Napoleon III ordered one million cans of beef to feed his troops.

He ordered Joachim Murat to bring the guns from the Sablons artillery park ; the Major and his cavalry fought their way to the recently captured cannon, and brought them back to Napoleon.

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 ".

When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganças moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate of the Spanish Bourbons ( Napoleon I arrested them and made his brother Joseph king ).

Napoleon ordered 10 days of mourning throughout France ; in the United States, thousands wore mourning clothes for months.

On July 31, 1870, the French Emperor Napoleon III ordered an invasion across the Saar River to seize Saarbrücken.

Napoleon III ordered the army to break out of the encirclement immediately.

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.

Because he insisted in traveling in state Napoleon reprimanded him and ordered him to leave his court behind.

Jérôme's brother Napoleon ordered his brother back to France and demanded that the marriage be annulled.

Josephine wanted to collect all known roses so Napoleon ordered his warship commanders to search all seized vessels for plants to be forwarded to Malmaison.

Napoleon soon realized Murat's mistakes and ordered him to pursue quickly, however at that time the allied army had already retreated to Olmutz.

On the same day, Napoleon ordered Soult to abandon both Austerlitz and the Pratzen Heights and also create an image of chaos during the retreat ; that would make the enemies occupy the Heights.

Meanwhile, to support his weak right flank, Napoleon ordered Davout's III Corps to force march all the way from Vienna and join General Legrand's men, who held the extreme southern flank that would bear the heaviest part of the Allied attack.

" About 15 minutes later, Napoleon ordered the attack, adding, " One sharp blow and the war is over.

Napoleon ordered Bernadotte's I Corps to support Vandamme's left and moved his own command center from Žuráň Hill to St. Anthony's Chapel on the Pratzen Heights.

Sensing trouble, Napoleon ordered his own heavy Guard cavalry forward.

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.

The Next morning, Napoleon having enjoyed the quality of Liege ’ s wines, ordered his troops to burn all the vineyards around Liege, in order to prevent the Liege wine industry from competing with the French wine industry.

Napoleon learnt of the capture at the start of February and ordered Hofer to be tried and executed.

As this was contrary to Napoleon ’ s orders " you will be the sword against the Prussian ’ s back driving them through Wavre and join me here ", Grouchy decided not to take the advice, convinced as he was that the Prussians were positively known to be at Wavre in the morning, and that any other movement than ordered by Napoleon to " March on Wavre and draw closer to the main army " ( order send by Napoleon around 10 p. m .) would have been a disobeying of given orders.

The Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington's and Field Marshal von Blücher's triumph over Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo

A Coalition of Anglo-Dutch and Prussian Armies under the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Napoleon appoints King Louis ' former Minister of War, Marshal Soult, as Chief of Staff, and he corresponds to the families of the deceased during the war and plans a campaign for the defense of France.

In the opening scene, where the marshals are attempting to persuade Napoleon to abdicate, Marshal Soult is present: in 1814, Soult was commanding the defence of Toulouse against Wellington's Army.

* April 22 – Battle of Eckmühl: French troops under Napoleon I and Marshal Davout defeat the Austrians under Archduke Charles.

* October 14 – Battle of Jena-Auerstädt: Napoleon defeats the Prussian army of Prince Hohenlohe at Jena while Marshal Davout defeats the main Prussian army under the Duke of Brunswick, who is killed.

He was appointed as a Marshal of France by Napoleon I, though the two had a turbulent relationship.

* Marshal Bernadotte at The Napoleon Series.

As a result of the defeat, Napoleon III, along with Field Marshal MacMahon, formed the new French Army of Châlons to march on to Metz to rescue Bazaine.

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.

However, Napoleon did not rule France again for very long, suffering a decisive defeat at the hands of the armies of the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June.

At about 8: 45 a. m., satisfied at the weakness in the enemy center, Napoleon asked Soult how long it would take for his men to reach the Pratzen Heights, to which the Marshal replied, " Less than twenty minutes, sire.

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

In 1804 Napoleon promoted Bernadotte to a Marshal of France.

Meanwhile, Napoleon threatened Bennigsen from the south with Marshal Pierre Augereau's VII Corps and Ney's troops.

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.

Encountering Field Marshal Schwarzenberg's larger Austrian force, Napoleon Bonaparte withdrew his French army after confused fighting.

Faced with converging Allied Armies, Napoleon decided to attack Field Marshal Schwarzenberg's Austrian troops before attacking General Blücher ’ s lines of communications on the upper Marne.

Napoleon received reinforcements during the night, including units of the Imperial Guard, two cavalry formations, and one division from VIIth Corps commanded by Marshal Oudinot, giving 28, 000 total troops.

Marshal Blücher had recovered from his earlier setbacks more quickly than Napoleon Bonaparte had hoped, and so the French Emperor was forced to switch his attacks from the Austrian Field Marshal Schwarzenberg back to the Prussian commander.

The Battle of Dresden was fought on 26 – 27 August 1813 around Dresden, Germany, resulting in a French victory under Napoleon I against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg.

On 16 August, Napoleon had sent Marshal Saint-Cyr's corps to fortify and hold Dresden in order to hinder allied movements and to serve as a possible base for his own manoeuvres.