Napoleon sends part of his army, under Grouchy and Gerard, to pursue Blücher and directs the rest of his forces against Wellington.

Napoleon then sends a diversionary infantry attack against Wellington's right flank — the Chateau of Hougoumont — with the view to stretch the Allied line and to " see the quality of this English aristocrat ".

Napoleon sends his Polish lancers to attack them and Ponsonby is killed after his horse gets stuck in mud.

Napoleon now sends forward the Imperial Guard to smash the failing allied line.

Finally, having been threatened with execution, and convinced that Kolberg can only be saved if a great leader can be found, Nettelbeck sends Maria on the dangerous journey to Königsberg where the Court of Prussia has retreated to, to meet with the King and with Queen Louise, who was described by Napoleon as " the only man in Prussia ".

* One of the people Asterix and Obelix see before they enter the " Place that sends you mad " is based upon Napoleon.

* 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.

Napoleon first sent his reserve corps ( under General Lobau ) and then some elements of his Guard to engage and delay these Prussians, while maintaining his front line: these clashes in and around the village of Plancenoit were crucial to the battle.

As a reward for his services at Austerlitz ( 2 December 1805 ) he became the 1st Sovereign Prince of Ponte Corvo ( 5 June 1806 ), but during the campaign against Prussia, in the same year, was severely reproached by Napoleon for not participating with his army corps in the battles of Jena and Auerstädt, though close at hand.

Once these divisions were ready, the rest of the corps would withdraw towards them, luring the allies to attack, while Napoleon, leading the main 110, 000 strong French force, would come around the allied flank and counter attack.

Under Napoleon the divisions were grouped together into corps, because of their increasing size.

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.

Despite Davout's reports to the contrary, Napoleon ordered him to attack the Austrians on his front in the morning, with the proviso that Lefebvre's equally depleted corps would support him if he needed help ( A total of approximately 36, 000 men for both corps ).

Knowing that Napoleon was within supporting distance with at least three corps, Lannes sent aides galloping off with messages for help and waged an expert delaying action to fix Benningsen in place.

Napoleon gave brief orders: Ney's corps would take the line between Postlienen and the Sortlack Wood, Lannes closing on his left, to form the centre, Mortier at Heinrichsdorf the left wing.

Osten-Sacken's and Yorck's corps each numbered about 18, 000, while Napoleon ’ s had 10, 500 ( later brought up to 20, 000 by arrival of reinforcements ) and 36 cannons.

Napoleon formed his own Mamluk corps, the last known Mamluk force, in the early years of the 19th century, and used Mamluks in a number of his campaigns.

Napoleon gradually became more convinced that the Austrians were massed at Ulm and ordered sizeable portions of the French army to concentrate around Donauwörth ; on 6 October, three French infantry and cavalry corps headed to Donauwörth to seal off Mack's escape route.

During this time, the Russian threat to the east began to preoccupy Napoleon so much that Murat was given command of the right wing of the army, consisting of Ney's and Lannes's corps.

Accordingly, Napoleon sent the corps of Soult and Marmont towards the Iller, meaning he now had four infantry and one cavalry corps to deal with Mack ; Davout, Bernadotte, and the Bavarians were still guarding the region around Munich.

Olbers was deputed by his fellow citizens to assist at the baptism of Napoleon II of France on June 9, 1811, and he was a member of the corps legislatif in Paris 1812 – 1813.

He then passed from that post to being commander-in-chief of an army corps that Napoleon meant to send to Portugal to force it to renounce its alliance with England, though that expedition never took place.

On April 2 the king ordered a general levy of 30, 000 men ; but while two army corps, under Armfelt and Toll, together with a British contingent of 10, 000 men under Moore, were stationed in Skåne and on the Norwegian border in anticipation of an attack from Denmark, which, at the instigation of Napoleon, had simultaneously declared war against Sweden, the little Finnish army was left altogether unsupported.

At Ligny, Napoleon ordered General d ' Erlon to move his corps ( currently on Napoleon's left and Ney's right ) to the Prussians ' rear in order to cut off their line of retreat.

Napoleon Bonaparte leading a French expeditionary corps to Egypt

Assembling an army in Belgium to fight Napoleon ’ s resurgent forces in the spring of 1815, the Duke of Wellington formed it into army corps, deliberately mixing units from the Anglo-Hanoverian, Dutch-Belgian and German contingents so that the weaker elements would be stiffened by more experienced or reliable troops.

* 1769 – Napoleon, Corsican-French military officer and political leader ( d. 1821 )

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

Berthollet was one of several scientists who went with Napoleon to Egypt, and was a member of the physics and natural history section of the Institut d ' Égypte.

Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, returned from exile in the United Kingdom in 1848 to be elected to the French parliament, and then as " Prince President " in a coup d ' état elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate.

* 1805 – Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte, French prince ( d. 1870 )

* 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte ( d. 1820 )

* 1826 – Eugénie de Montijo of France, wife of Napoleon III ( d. 1920 )

* 1856 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France ( d. 1879 )

* 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls ( Consulate Government ).

* 1883 – Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher ( d. 1970 )

* 1888 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet ( d. 1944 )

* 1815 – Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Italian-born adventurer ( d. 1881 )

* 1799: Napoleon staged a coup d ' état and became First Consul of France.

* April 20 – Napoleon III, Emperor of the French ( d. 1873 )

* May 19 – Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French Légion d ' honneur ( Legion of Honour ).

* June 28 – Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer ( d. 1883 )

* March 16 – Napoléon Eugène Louis John Joseph, Prince Imperial, son of French Emperor Napoleon III ( d. 1879 )

* March 20 – Napoleon II of France ( d. 1832 )

* January 13 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte ( d. 1820 )

* August 15 – Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French ( d. 1821 )

He declined to help Napoleon Bonaparte stage his coup d ' état of November 1799, but nevertheless accepted employment from the Consulate, and from April 1800 to 18 August 1801 commanded the army in the Vendée.

As a political journalist, Zola did not hide his dislike of Napoleon III, who had successfully run for the office of President under the constitution of the French Second Republic, only to misuse this position as a springboard for the coup d ' état that made him emperor.

Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, president of the jury, proposed an exceptional recompense for their author, and obtained from emperor Napoleon III Ingres's nomination as grand officer of the Légion d ' honneur.