`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

Napoleon came to see the painter, stared at the canvas for an hour and said " David, I salute you ".

Napoleon, a typical " great man " said to have determined an era

As Napoleon famously said, " an army marches on its stomach ", a weakness that has applied to all military campaigns in history.

Chauvin's distinguished record of service and his love and devotion for Napoleon, which endured despite the price he willingly paid for them, is said to have earned him only ridicule and derision in Restoration France, when Bonapartism became increasingly unpopular.

These visits enabled him to meet and take the measure of his adversaries Napoleon III, and the British Prime Minister Palmerston and Foreign Secretary Earl Russell, and also of the British Conservative politician Disraeli, later to be Prime Minister in the 1870s – who later claimed to have said of Bismarck's visit " Be careful of that man – he means every word he says ".

The historian George Herring has said that while the purchase was somewhat the result of Jefferson and Madison's " shrewd and sometimes belligerent diplomacy ", that it " is often and rightly regarded as a diplomatic windfall — the result of accident, luck, and the whim of Napoleon Bonaparte.

He mocked McKinley, said by some to resemble Napoleon, noting that he was nominated on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

He so stays in the film ... Napoleon once said that the art of the general is not strategy but knowing how to mold human nature ... Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say.

Napoleon stepped towards the soldiers and said these famous words: " If there is among you a soldier who wants to kill his Emperor, here I am.

Napoleon was delighted that his wife survived the ordeal and said: " I had rather never have any more children than see her suffer so much again.

It can be said that the Prussian Army under Blücher used the " maneuver de derrière " against Napoleon who was suddenly placed in a position of reacting to a new enemy threat.

The practice of strategy was advanced by generals such as Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, all of whom had been influenced by the feats of Napoleon ( Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson was said to have carried a book of Napoleon's maxims with him.

It used to be very popular in British cuisine, and Napoleon supposedly said the reason for the British love of arrowroot was to support their colonies.

Horsehair toothbrush said to have been used by Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1769-1821 )

Napoleon said of Masséna: he was " the greatest name of my military Empire.

He so stays in the film ... Napoleon once said that the art of the general is not strategy but knowing how to mold human nature ... Maybe that is all producer Frank McCarthy and Gen. Bradley, his chief advisor, are trying to say.

It is said that he aspired to the throne of Mexico, and that the French expedition sent to place Archduke Maximilian on the throne was prompted by Napoleon III's desire to thwart this ambition.

This mace is said to have been used at the coronation of Napoleon as king of Italy at Milan in 1805.

Napoleon took great interest in the library and among other things issued an order that all books in provincial libraries not possessed by the Bibliothèque Nationale should be forwarded to it, subject to replacement by exchanges of equal value from the duplicate collections, making it possible, as Napoleon said, to find a copy of any book in France in the National Library.

Napoleon said about her, according to the Memoirs of Mme.

When royalist troops deployed to stop the march of Napoleon's force at Lyon, Napoleon stepped out in front of them, ripped open his coat and said “ If any of you will shoot your Emperor, shoot him now .” The men all joined his cause.

Marshal Ney, now one of Louis ' key commanders, had said that Napoleon ought to be brought to Paris in an iron cage, but on 14 March, Ney joined Napoleon with 6, 000 men.

* 1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.

Napoleon earned the hatred of the Paolists by pretending to support Paoli and then turning against him ( payment, one supposes, for Sardinia ).

In the one he is unreal, in the other he displayed, along with the greatest skill, a vivid activity which made him for long the most formidable opponent of Napoleon.

In conversation with Ivinskaya, Pasternak explained that the swine dictator Napoleon, " vividly reminded ," him of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

This work also brought him to the attention of Napoleon.

Napoleon had high esteem for David, and asked him to accompany him to Egypt in 1798, but David refused, claiming he was too old for adventuring and sending instead his student, Antoine-Jean Gros.

The disaster at Jena in 1806, in which Napoleon completely crushed the Prussian army, drove him to Königsberg for a time, but he returned to Berlin in 1807 and continued his literary activity.

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.

In 1805, Napoleon planned to invade Britain, but a renewed British alliance with Russia and Austria ( Third Coalition ), forced him to turn his attention towards the continent, while at the same time failure to lure the superior British fleet away from the English Channel, ending in a decisive French defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October put an end to hopes of an invasion of Britain.

Napoleon transformed the Italian principality of Elba, where he was imprisoned, into a miniature version of his First Empire, with most trappings of a sovereign monarchy, until his Cent Jours escape and reseizure of power in France convinced his opponents, reconvening the Vienna Congress in 1815, to revoke his gratuitous privileges and send him to die in exile on barren Saint Helena.

The Pope had been forced out of Rome as part of the Revolutions of 1848, and Louis Napoleon sent a 14, 000 man expeditionary force of troops to the Papal State under General Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot to restore him.

This praise has earned him a strong reputation in the modern world, and he was regarded as a great strategist by men like Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington.

Napoleon soon exiled him and Kassel was annexed to the Kingdom of Westphalia, a new creation.

* 1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher forcing him to abdicate the throne of France for the second and last time.

Polk's oratory became popular, earning him the nickname " Napoleon of the Stump.

Another influential book which he read at the time was a translation of Great Heroes of the World, becoming inspired by the American revolutionary George Washington and French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, whose military prowess and nationalistic fervour greatly impressed him.

Napoleon III was taken prisoner at Sedan and kept in Germany for a while in case Bismarck had need of him to head a puppet regime ; he later died in exile in England in 1873.

: Fanciful commentators called him Shaka, the Black Napoleon, and allowing for different societies and customs, the comparison is apt.

After Napoleon's decisive victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805, however, Napoleon became much more aggressive, and most American attempts to negotiate with him were unsuccessful.

; 1858: The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, responds to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony ; the resulting uproar forces him to resign.

Napoleon, sensing the mood of Ney's troops, goes forward unarmed and asks them if they really want to fire at him.