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Napoleon Bonaparte: Facts
the
bombardment of Brussels
by
French troops
(ruins pictured)
in 1695 was later described by
Napoleon Bonaparte
as being "as barbarous as it was useless?"
the head of the rebellious
Ferdinand von Schill
(pictured)
was publicly displayed in
Leyden
after he lost a
street fight
with
Napoleon's
troops in 1809?
the
Swedish
port of
Gustavia
was destroyed by
Napoleon Bonaparte
's forces only a year after its construction had begun?
one of the most influential people in
Polish-French relations
was
Napoleon Bonaparte
, still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the
Polish national anthem
?
Sweden
, present in
Stralsund
since 1628
,
lost the town in 1807
to
Napoleon Bonaparte
?
during the
Ulm Campaign
(
pictured
) in 1805, French forces under
Napoleon Bonaparte
eliminated an entire
Austrian
army by capturing 60,000 troops?
Napoleon Bonaparte
is said to have visited the
St. Peter's Church
(pictured)
in
Jaffa
during his
campaign in Egypt and Syria
in 1799?
Facts on topics related to Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
Eugène de Beauharnais
returned the territories of the
Napoleonic
Italy
to provisional
Austrian
rule in 1814 by the
Convention of Mantua
?
Madonna
,
Michelangelo
,
Napoleon
,
Pelé
and
Voltaire
(pictured)
are all
mononymous persons
— each is commonly known by a single name?
Napoleon
once commissioned
Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes
to write an
éloge
on
George Washington
?
Domenico Pino
, an
Italian
General of Division
in
Napoleon
's
Grande Armée
, married a
ballerina
and sold the villa in
Como
that she inherited from her rich first husband to
Caroline of Brunswick
?
Jean Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière
(pictured)
directed
French
artillery to fire on an ice-covered lake at the
Battle of Austerlitz
, helping to win the day for
Napoleon
?
a
Franco-Persian alliance
(artist's impression pictured)
was concluded by
Napoleon
in 1807 as a step to help him accomplish his objective of attacking
British India
?
despite plagiarizing a
Chinese
-
French
-
Latin
dictionary
ordered by
Napoleon
,
Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes
went on to become a member of the
French Academy of Sciences
?
during his exile on
Elba
,
Napoleon
is said to have favored the island's wines made from the grape variety
Aleatico
?
in his memoirs of the
Battle of Waterloo
,
William Leeke
claimed that the
52nd Light Infantry
singlehandedly defeated 10,000 of
Napoleon
's
Imperial Guard
?
one of the
causes of the May Revolution
could have been that
Napoleon
crowned his own brother
Joseph Bonaparte
(pictured)
as the new Spanish King?
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