Napoleon Bonaparte reopened the church in 1806, but allowed the royal remains to be left in their mass graves.

The scientific members of the French Expedition under Napoleon sought for it in vain, and it was only when the Eastern Desert was reopened for study under Muhammad Ali that the site was rediscovered by Burton and Wilkinson in 1823.

Napoleon made no effort to pursue Wrede, the main road to Frankfurt was now reopened, the French retreat continued.

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 ).

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Florence was the prefecture of the French département of Arno from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814.

The deplorable situation of Germany stirred him to the depths and led him to deliver the famous Addresses to the German Nation ( 1808 ) which guided the uprising against Napoleon.

Charles IV's vacillation, culminating in his failure to honour the alliance by neglecting to enforce the Continental System led to Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, invading Spain in 1808, thereby triggering Spain's War of Independence.

Spain temporarily broke off from the Continental System, and Napoleon – aggravated with the Bourbon kings of Spain – invaded Spain in 1808 and deposed Ferdinand VII, who had been on the throne only forty-eight days after his father's abdication in March 1808.

On July 20, 1808, Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Madrid and established a government by which he became King of Spain, serving as a surrogate for Napoleon.

In 1808, soon after the death of his mother, he was appointed superintendent of the private library of Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia, into which Hesse-Kassel had been incorporated by Napoleon.

In July 1808, Napoleon issued a decree that everyone, including Jews, must adopt an inheritable family surname, and so Meier's son, also Moses, took the name of his employers, the Sayn-Wittgensteins, and became Moses Meier Wittgenstein.

* 1808 – Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire.

* Napoleon III ( 1808 – 1873 ), last monarch and first president of France, son of Napoleon I's brother Louis

* January 9 – Napoleon III, last Emperor of the French ( b. 1808 )

Occupied by Napoleon from 1808 to 1814, a massively destructive " war of independence " ensued, driven by an emergent Spanish nationalism.

Napoleon exploited the situation and invaded Spain in March 1808.

At the Congress of Erfurt ( September – October 1808 ), Napoleon and Alexander agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808 – 09 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia.

Corte was the birthplace of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768 – 1844 ), the eldest brother of the French Emperor Napoleon I, who made him King of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ).

Napoleon restored it in 1808 as the theological faculty of the newly organized university.

Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte ( 7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844 ) was the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who made him King of Naples and Sicily ( 1806 – 1808 ), and later King of Spain ( 1808 – 1813, as José I ).

* Louis Philippe, the last king to rule France, although Emperor Napoleon III would serve as its last monarch.

He resigned from the U. S. Army in August 1854 to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Napoleon III of France, and was commissioned as a lieutenant in French Army.

He was the last king to rule France, although Emperor Napoleon III would serve as its last monarch.

Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine, a string of German states meant to serve as a buffer between France and Prussia.

He was briefly ambassador to Portugal before hurrying back to serve under Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz ( 2 December 1805 ).

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.

Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine, a string of German states meant to serve as a buffer between France and Prussia.

August 2, 1766 saw the birth of Saint-Pierre de Louis Delgrès, a mixed-race free black who would serve in the French army and fight the British in 1794, before becoming the leader of the unsuccessful resistance in Guadeloupe against General Richepance, whom Napoleon had sent to restore slavery to that colony.

Elsewhere, Napoleon is also imprisoned for refusing to serve under Robespierre.

A strong supporter of Napoleon, he wrote numerous letters to the press opposing the Government's decision to send Napoleon to St Helena and himself attempted to serve a writ of habeas corpus while Napoleon was held on board a ship in Plymouth.

At the age of thirty-three, he left England for Spain as a volunteer to serve in the national army against Napoleon.

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.

After the first abdication of the emperor ( April 11, 1814 ), Las Cases retired to England, but returned to serve Napoleon during the Hundred Days.

In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to serve as a volunteer in the Hundred Days against Napoleon, and was wounded in the Battle of Ligny.

He was recruited by Dominique Vivant in 1808 to make bas-reliefs for the monumental column in the Place Vendôme in Paris and also to serve as portrait sculptor to Emperor Napoleon I and his family.

These Polish nationalists participated in uprisings against Austria, Prussia, and Russia in former Polish lands, and many would serve France as part of Napoleon ’ s armies.

François Fournier, later General François Fournier-Sarlovese, was probably the most daring, unruly, and unpredictable senior officer ever to serve Napoleon.

After his 18 Brumaire coup, Napoleon called Bachasson to serve as préfet of the Manche and then Seine-et-Oise under the Consulate.

It was subsequently sent to Texas to serve as the " Army of Occupation " against Napoleon III's French presence in Mexico.

He was afterwards appointed the prince's envoy at Paris, where he remained until the decree of Napoleon, forbidding all persons born on the left side of the Rhine to serve any other state than France, compelled him to resign his office ( 1811 ).