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.

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 Austrian advance into Piedmont was incompetent, and they were unable to secure the Alpine passes before the arrival of the French army, led personally by Napoleon III.

Orphaned children were adopted by Napoleon personally and were allowed to add " Napoleon " to their baptismal and family names.

The French army at Solferino, personally led by Napoleon III, was divided in four Corps plus the Imperial Guard.

With Napoleon forced to intervene personally and commit increasingly significant forces to the Spanish, the French military position in central Europe was severely weakened.

Napoleon, worried about what was happening in Spain and upset with the failure of the expedition of his forces, decided to come personally to the Peninsula in whose submission he had invested 300, 000 men.

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.

Marmont was personally liberal, and opposed to the ministry's policy, but was bound tightly to the King because he believed such to be his duty ; and possibly because of his unpopularity for his generally perceived and widely criticized desertion of Napoleon in 1814.

Napoleon was, in fact, so intimidated by his minister of police that he did not dismiss the man personally, sending instead a servant with the information that-in addition to getting 35, 000 yearly francs income as a senator and a piece of land worth 30, 000 francs a year-he would also get over a million francs from the reserve funds of the police.

Born in Turin, La Marmora was a general in the Napoleonic Wars and was personally decorated by Napoleon I.

As part of the resulting changes, Jan Willem Janssens was appointed personally by Napoleon Bonaparte to replace Daendels as Governor General.

In the afternoon Napoleon personally ordered the shelling of the house to cause it to burn, resulting in the destruction of all but the chapel.

He was a devoted servant of Napoleon, on whose behalf he personally looted vast numbers of works of art in Italy, the Low Countries and Germany and, through agents ( including Goya ), in Spain, for the Musee Napoleon in Paris.

According to local legend, when Napoleon Bonaparte entered the cathedral after Smolensk had fallen to the French army in 1812, he looked up at the altar wall and proclaimed that if any one of his soldiers dared to steal anything from it he would personally kill that man.

However, in November 1813, Napoleon replaced him with Armand Augustin Louis Caulaincourt, who was thought to be more devoted to the cause of peace and personally grateful to the Emperor Alexander I of Russia.

The battle was the first time Napoleon had been personally defeated in over a decade, but it was no more than a tactical victory for the Austrians, who failed to capitalise on their superior numbers and merely repulsed Napoleon, without defeating him.

Napoleon Bonaparte personally requested Lasalle to participate in the Campaign in Egypt.

King George III knighted Dance for his courage and various mercantile and patriotic organisations awarded him large sums of money, while both Linois's own officers and the Emperor Napoleon personally castigated the French admiral for his failure to press the attack against a weaker and extremely valuable enemy.

He created some 200 pictures albums, which he personally offered in 1855 to Napoleon III of France and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Following France's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition, Napoleon Bonaparte marched into Berlin in 1806, but granted self-government to the city.

As it is unlikely that Napoleon granted the artists a sitting, Ingres ' meticulously painted portrait of Bonaparte, First Consul appears to be modelled on an image of Napoleon painted by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1802.

Afraid that Garibaldi would set up a republican government in the south, the Sardinians petitioned Emperor Napoleon III of France for permission to send troops through the Papal States to gain control of the Two Sicilies, which was granted on the condition that Rome was left undisturbed.

After two attempts Napoleon granted permission.

The Papacy ruled it by appointed rectors, seated in a magnificent palace, and the principality continued to be a papal possession until 1806, when Napoleon granted it to his minister Talleyrand with the title of Sovereign Prince.

After Coevorden, then a village of about sixteen hundred people, Assen became the second place in Drenthe with city rights, granted by King Lodewijk Napoleon, who had big plans with the village.

In 1811 Napoleon Bonaparte granted it city rights.

In 1856, Charles III of Monaco granted a concession to Napoleon Langlois and Albert Aubert to establish a sea-bathing facility for the treatment of various diseases, and to build a German-style casino in Monaco.

However, in the morning when his cell door is opened, he is granted a stay due to Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo ; after Napoleon is again sent into exile, Hornblower is released.

Napoleon also granted him the title ' Prince of Pontecorvo ', a town in central Italy.

From the old court he received distinctions and rewards of all kinds ; the republic made him an inspector of the conservatoire ; Napoleon granted him the cross of the legion of honour and a pension.

Although Napoleon restored the idea of apanage in 1810 for his sons, none were ever granted, nor were any new apanages created by the restoration monarchs.

Napoleon made Murat a Marshal of France on 18 May 1804, and also granted him the title of " First Horseman of Europe ".

Civil rights granted to Jews in Germany, following the occupation of that country by the French under Napoleon, were rescinded after his defeat.

After the fall of Napoleon, the provisional Government of the Republic appointed a new Committee in charge of higher education, and at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it was decided that the University of Genoa be entrusted to the Kingdom of Sardinia, enjoying the same privileges as those granted to the University of Turin.

The monarchy of July conferred on him an important post in connection with the royal collections, and Napoleon III granted him a pension, and the cross of commander of the Legion of Honor.

In 1813, Emperor Napoleon I granted him a pension of three thousand francs a year, but this was stopped under the Restoration of the monarchy in 1814.

In 1807, Napoleon recreated the duchy of Siewierz ( Sievers ), and granted it to Jean Lannes, after Prussia was forced to cede all her acquisitions from the 2nd and 3rd partitions of Poland.

The Roman Republic flag was a vertical tricolour black-white-red, taken from the French tricolour, as granted by Napoleon.

Thus, in 1867, Napoleon III assigned Bulliot to do research at Mont Beavray and granted him funding.

In 1808, King Ferdinand VII of Spain abdicated in favor of Napoleon, who granted the throne to his brother, Joseph Bonaparte.

After Napoleon Bonaparte granted Venetian domains to the Austrians, the Podestà was used by Austrians as a barracks, and then to the commune of Lonato, under whom it fell into disrepair.

Another legend identifies the design as that of a bee, an imperial symbol, claiming that the design was granted by Napoleon in recognition of the courage of local soldiers.