When Napoleon arrived, he reorganized the defenses, while realizing that without cannon, the city could not be held.

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 ).

When Napoleon began his blockade of the British Empire ( see Continental System ), British steel became unavailable, and Napoleon offered a prize of four thousand francs to anyone who could replicate the British process.

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

When French emperor Napoleon I completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towards the edges of the northern territories of the Papal State, San Marino found itself forced to choose between maintaining the alliance with the Papal State or creating a new one with France.

When the Third Coalition declared war on France, after the short-lived Peace of Amiens, Napoleon was determined to invade Britain.

When Villeneuve set sail from Ferrol on 10 August, he was under orders from Napoleon to sail northward toward Brest.

When Napoleon was defeated, his fall was celebrated in Provence.

When Napoleon abandoned his planned invasion of Britain its propaganda value was lost and it was returned to Bayeux where the council displayed it on a winding apparatus of two cylinders.

When Napoleon indicated that he preferred a centralized organization of the Dutch state ( as the re-federalized model of the Staatsbewind had clearly not worked out ), he did not hesitate to implement this in his project of a new constitution, that he constructed in the Summer of 1804 in consultation with the Staatsbewind.

When the clash about the French customs men therefore took place later in the month, Napoleon came to a speedy decision and soon thereafter the Batavian Republic had a new constitution and government.

When under attack by Napoleon in 1805, Karl Wilhelm may have had the French Blue recut to disguise its identity ; in this form, the stone could have come to Britain in 1806, when his family fled there to join his daughter Caroline of Brunswick.

When the Order of St John of Jerusalem left the Maltese Islands, the French took over the Infirmary in June 1798, just after the occupation of the Island by General Napoleon Bonaparte.

When the French Emperor Napoleon took Rome and expelled Pope Pius VII in 1809, Cappellari fled to Murano.

When Louis appealed to his brother Napoleon for help, Napoleon sided with Hortense.

When Napoleon III and his city planner Baron Haussmann planned to make Paris the most beautiful city in Europe, a first step was to grant large sweeps of land near the centre of the city to Haussmann's friends and financial supporters.

When the Sixth Coalition finally defeated Napoleon, Louis XVIII was restored to what he, and Royalists, considered his rightful place.

When his father abdicated on 4 April 1814, he named his son Emperor, but the coalition partners that had defeated Napoleon refused to acknowledge his son as successor, so he was forced to abdicate unconditionally a week later.

When his nephew, Prince Louis Napoleon, became President of the French Republic in 1848, Jérôme was made governor of Les Invalides, Paris, the burial place of Napoleon I.

When Louis Napoleon became emperor as Napoleon III, Jérôme was recognized as the heir presumptive to the throne until the birth of the Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

When they sought advice about this event, an oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual sacrifice to Onesilos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this.

When Amyntas sought Spartan aid against the growing threat of Olynthus, the Spartans eagerly responded.

When a Roman embassy sought restitution for the damage, the Latins gave a contemptuous reply.

When the peace treaty was signed in February, 1828, Abbas Mirza sought to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was nominally under Persian supremacy, and while engaged in the task died at Mashhad in 1833.

When the capital was burned in 1893, the sultan sought and received protectorate status from the French.

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

When Drumcondra began to rapidly expand in the 1870s, the residents of Glasnevin sought to protect their district and opposed being merged with the neighbouring suburb.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When workers from the William Beardmore and Company Steel Works in Glasgow were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works, an alternative was sought.

When she left, she managed to acquire safe passage for all the refugees who had sought refuge in her home.

When advised of his nomination, Polk replied: " It has been well observed that the office of President of the United States should neither be sought nor declined.

When Ribbentrop recovered, he sought a chance for increasing the agency's influence by giving Croatia independence.

When colonial rule was established and efficiency was sought, partly because of settler pressure, newly educated younger men were associated with old chiefs in local Native Councils.

When Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI he sought to be allied with powerful princely families and founding dynasties of Italy.

When describing life in Communist countries, western propaganda sought to depict an image of a brainwashed citizenry which was then held captive by their government.

When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.

When Dingiswayo was murdered by Zwide, a powerful chief of the Ndwandwe ( Nxumalo ) clan, Shaka sought to avenge his death.

When creating the main characters Carter, sought to switch the usual gender stereotypes and made Mulder a believer and Scully a skeptic.

When the U. S. entered the war in 1917, Roosevelt sought to raise a volunteer infantry division, but Wilson refused.

When Michigan sought statehood in the early 1830s, it sought to include the disputed territory within its boundaries ; Ohio's Congressional delegation was in turn able to halt Michigan's admission to the Union.

However he did work to reduce class anatagonism, for as Perry notes, " When confronted with specific problems, he sought to reduce tension between town and country, landlords and farmers, capital and labour, and warring religious sects in Britain and Ireland — in other words, to create a unifying synthesis.

When a member sought to reveal its ' secrets ', so ran the conclusion, they had done away with him, and because they controlled the officials, were capable of obstructing the investigation.

When possible, they may have sought to pray among the bodies of dead Christians, maybe using a coffin or tomb for an altar on which to celebrate the Eucharist.