Napoleon Bonaparte feared black cats.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on Corsica.

Napoleon Bonaparte ruled France at that time.

Napoleon Bonaparte is considered to be one of the greatest military geniuses of world history.

Without the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte would have remained a gifted and frustrated junior military officer.

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Napoleon called the English a nation of shopkeepers.

Napoleon marched his armies into Russia.

Napoleon guided his troops to Russia.

Napoleon guided his troops to Russia.

Napoleon led his troops to Russia.

Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena.

Napoleon lived in exile on the island of Elba.

Napoleon was banished to Elba in 1814.

Napoleon needed money for a war with Britain.

Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba in 1814.

In 1801, the island was renamed Île Bonaparte , after Napoleon Bonaparte.

Otherwise, Louisiana would be an easy prey for Britain or even for the United States.

But...what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

I don t want a good General, I want a lucky one the French Emperor Napoleon I used to quip.

Was Napoleon slowly poisoned by arsenic during his exile in St. Helena?

In 1806 Napoleon established his Imperial Headquarters at Gera during the War of the Fourth Coalition.

Napoleon, defeated in that same year, had secured civil rights for Jews in the countries he had conquered.

Napoleon famously said that God is on the side of the big battalions, and Mao Zedong argued that power comes from the barrel of a gun.

The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

The sleeping dragon, as Napoleon described China in the early nineteenth century, was now fully awake, ready to charge into the new world.

Such policies would mirror those followed by Napoleon III in France in the 1850's.

For Marx, the class struggle in France created the circumstances in which a grotesque mediocrity that is, Napoleon was morphed into a hero.

Whether or not Napoleon was great, the question remains whether any leader could merit that description.

In invading Russia in 1941, Hitler, like Napoleon, demonstrated a military overconfidence that resulted in catastrophe.

Bonaparte may be about to triumph easily over Joan of Arc, as some foreign commentators like to describe the two leading candidates, but Sarkozy s supposedly Bonapartist qualities have fueled a potent sense of apprehension.

But some of the most powerful leaders in history, such as Napoleon, Stalin, and Deng Xiaoping were little over five feet tall.

But Kulnev's name was new to all Before the flame of war was blown And he came rushing like a squall, Scarce dreamed of before known.

Napoleon III, since the Crimean War Britain's closest ally, visited London in April 1855, and from 17 to 28 August the same year Victoria and Albert returned the visit.

I don t want a good General, I want a lucky one the French Emperor Napoleon I used to quip. By that standard, he would not have wanted Sarkozy.

With a hypertextual program you could rewrite Waterloo so that Napoleon wins, but the tragic beauty of Hugo s Waterloo is that things happen independent of the reader s wishes.

Nonetheless, Napoleon, like de Gaulle, would both easily make it onto any list of history s great leaders assuming, of course, that one considers greatness to be an individual trait.

As far as Tolstoy was concerned, Napoleon was not a particularly good general, and was carried to victory by the courage and commitment of all of the individual French soldiers who won the Battle of Borodino.

They may not pay as heavy a price as France a century and a half ago, when the popularly elected Louis Napoleon transformed himself, via a wildly popular referendum, into Napoleon III that vote being the last the French would enjoy until the end of the Second Empire.

Such policies would mirror those followed by Napoleon III in France in the 1850's. Destroying the financial power of the Ancien Regime laid the foundations for the vibrant market democracy France became.

If I want to know whether it was possible that Napoleon met Kant, I pick up volumes K and N and discover that Napoleon was born in 1769 and died in 1821, and that Kant was born in 1724 and died in 1804.