Napoleon got his first taste of battle in February 1793 at the siege of La Maddalena. By the year’s end, Napoleon was a general and a hero.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Rise and Fall
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? How did he manage to re-ignite imperial France within a decade of its revolution?
Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest generals in world history, but he owed much of his success to the marshals who served under him.
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Horatio Nelson is the most famous naval figure of the period. His four major battles (Cape St Vincent 1797, Nile 1798, Copenhagen 1801, and Trafalgar …
Napoleon’s Hundred Days refer to the second reign of the French Emperor Napoleon I. His attempt to regain power over France, however, ultimately led …
Portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte are various and numerous. His period of rule over France was marked by the almost industrial production of his …
The Battle of Waterloo was one of the most defining and important moments of all time, an event that changed the course of history.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 on the island of Corsica – situated between the coasts of southern France and northwestern Italy – a few months …
