• 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?

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• 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?