In 1793, a young Napoleon Bonaparte led French forces to victory in the Siege of Toulon, proving his brilliance as a military ...

The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his ... but there is a profound truth in some of the first words Desiree addresses to her diary.

He even orders the dimensions of the frame. TULARD: From the very beginning Napoleon gave himself an image. He created his own history. From his first triumphs, Bonaparte understood that it’s ...

Napoleon was in Warsaw when he was stunned by the news of a surprise Russian attack. He struck back at once, first at Eylau, just 130 miles from the Russian border, then, later in nearby Friedland.

The ruins of Upper Egypt wowed one of Napoleon's first savants "Very few of the scholars were antiquarians, those quintessentially eighteenth-century characters, mostly wealthy, who filled their ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.--It was in 1810 that the First Napoleon, after having made a thorough investigation of the tobacco industry in France, took from the people the manufacture of the plant ...

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