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  Napoleon II of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Duke of Reichstadt, formerly Napoleon II French Monarchy-
Napoleon II, Duke of Reichstadt (March 20, 1811 – July 22, 1832) was the son of Napoleon Bonaparte, and briefly the second Emperor of the French.
He was styled as HM The King of Rome, which Napoleon I declared was the courtesy title of the heir-apparent.
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 Napoleon I of France
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in the city of Ajaccio on Corsica shortly after Corsica had been sold to France by the Republic of Genoa[?].
On Elba, Napoleon became concerned about his wife and, more especially, his son, in the hands of the Austrians; the French government refused to pay his allowance and he heard rumors that he was about to be banished to a remote island in the Atlantic.
Napoleon's final defeat came at the hands of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo in present-day Belgium on 18 June 1815.
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 Napoleon I of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Napoleon knew the French fleet could not defeat the Royal Navy and therefore arranged to lure the British fleet away from the English Channel so that, in theory, a Spanish and French fleet could regain control of the Channel for twenty-four hours, which he erroneously thought enough for French armies to cross to England.
Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled by the British to the island of Saint Helena (2,800 km off the Bight of Guinea in the South Atlantic Ocean) from 15 October 1815.
In France, Napoleon is seen by some as having ended lawlessness and disorder in France, and the wars he fought as having served to export the Revolution to the rest of Europe.
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 Napoleon III of France
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of the King of Holland (1806-1810), Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846) and of Hortense de Beauharnais.
In a situation that resembles the case of Louis XVIII of France, the numbering of Napoleon's reign assumes the existence of a legitimate Napoleon II of France who never actually ruled.
Napoleon's challenge to Russia's claims to influence in the Ottoman Empire led to France's successful participation in the Crimean War (March 1854-March 1856).
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Napoleon I of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Napoleon was determined not to lose hold of Germany and there was a lull in fighting over the winter of 1812–13 whilst both the Russians and the French recovered from their massive losses of around half a million soldiers each.
Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled by the British to the island of Saint Helena (2,800 km off the Bight of Guinea) from 15 October 1815.
Furthermore, the Napoleonic Wars also exported the Revolution to the rest of Europe, and it is believed that the movements of national unification and the rise of the nation state, notably in Italy and Germany, were rooted in and precipitated—if not caused—by the Napoleonic rule of those areas.
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 World War II - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about World War II
France's surrender created other problems for Britain: the Germans could draw their submarine blockade tighter as they now held all the ports of Western Europe from the North Cape to the Pyrenees.
Having prepared the way by establishing air superiority in France and disrupting the German lines of communication, the first landings were made in Normandy in the D-day operation of 6 June 1944.
However, although the bomb designed to kill him did go off he survived the attempt and the plot gave the SS the excuse they wanted to launch a huge purge of German officers and their associates actually, or believed to be, implicated in the plot.
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 Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821) was effectively dictator of France beginning in 1799 and emperor of France as Napoleon I from 1804 to 1814; he also conquered and ruled over much of western Europe.
An indication of Napoleon's devotion to the principles of the Enlightenment was his decision to bring scholars along on his expedition: among the other discoveries that resulted, the Rosetta Stone was translated.
He had no children with Josephine (which was why he divorced her) and only one with Marie-Louise: Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte (1812-1833), King of Rome (known as Napoleon II of France although he never ruled).
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 Napoleon III of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (April 20 1808 - January 9 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais ; both monarchs of the Kingdom of Holland.
Napoleon's challenge to Russia 's claims to influence in the Ottoman Empire led to France's successful participation in Crimean War (March 1854 -March 1856).
It is interesting to read a biography of the Napoleon III after one on the First for the tales are really the same tale of prempted republics and celebrity families with their predations of revolutionary changes, as the ghost of hybrid reactionaries stalk...
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 Royalty.nu - Royal History of France - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French
Napoleon was the master of the broken play, so confident of his ability to improvise, cover his own mistakes, and capitalize on those of the enemies that he repeatedly plunged his armies into uncertain, seemingly desperate situations, only to emerge victorious.
The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone by Daniel Meyerson.
Napoleon and Josephine: The Sword and the Hummingbird by Gerald and Loretta Hausman.
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 Napoleon I of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was born Napoleone Buonaparte in the city of Ajaccio on Corsica one year after Corsica had been to France by the Republic of Genoa.
Napoleon was a Corsican who was perhaps the greatest field general in the long and sanguinary history of warfare.
Andrea Stuart's new biography on the life of Napoleon's most famous mistress, Josephine, is a complete and captivating story of one of France most powerful women at a time of social and political upheaval as France sought to reestablish its identity at th...
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 Napoleon II
Napoleon II 1811-32, son of Napoleon I and Marie Louise, known as the king of Rome (1811-14), as the prince of Parma (1814-18), and after that as the duke of Reichstadt.
Napoleon's abdication in 1815 was in favor of his son, so that he was known to the Bonapartists as Napoleon II, although he never ruled.
In 1940 his remains were transferred, as a gift to France from Adolf Hitler, from Vienna to the dome of the Invalides in Paris, where he now rests beside his father.
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 Napoleon III of France
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the 20th April 1808, and died on the 9th January 1873.
France challenged Russia's influence in the Ottoman Empire, successfully participated in the Crimean War, launched a naval expedition in 1858 to punish the Vietnamese and force them to accept a French presence in the country.
As Louis Napoleon Bonaparte on Obverse of 20 Francs of 1852
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 Napoleon Bonaparte | Emperor of the French
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Napoleon decided on a military career when he was a child, winning a scholarship to a French military academy.
Napoleon Bonaparte's Farewell to the Old Guard—On April 20, 1814 the Emperor of France and would-be ruler of Europe said goodbye to the Old Guard after his failed invasion of Russia and defeat by the Allies.
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 Napoleon I of France - France.com
He was born Napoleone Buonaparte in the city of Ajaccio on the island of Corsica one year after Corsica had been sold to France by the Republic of Genoa.
A coalition against France formed in Europe, the royalists rose again, and Napoléon abandoned his troops and returned to Paris in 1799; in November of that year, a coup d'état made him the ruler and military dictator ("First Consul") of France.
On Elba, Napoléon became concerned about his wife and, more especially, his son, in the hands of the Austrians; the French government refused to pay his allowance and he heard rumors that he was about to be banished to a remote island in the Atlantic.
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 Napoleon III - France.com
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais; both monarchs of the Kingdom of Holland.
He was elected President (1848-1852) of the Second Republic of France and subsequently Emperor (1852-1870), reigning as Napoleon III (Second French Empire).
Imprisoned after the second of two abortive coup attempts (October 1836 and August 1840), he escaped to the United Kingdom in May 1846, returning after the revolution of February 1848 to win the presidential election December 2 that year on a platform of strong government, social consolidation and national greatness.
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 PBS - Napoleon: Politics in Napoleon's Time
Longing for the glories he presented and moved by his heroic martyrdom, Napoleon was able to stir public opinion against the restored King Louis XVIII from beyond the grave.
But hopes for the return of Napoleon II to France were dashed when he died of tuberculosis at age twenty-one in 1832.
Considered to be his greatest legacy, Napoleon’s Civil Code assured the spread of the ideals of the French Revolution long after the end of his rule.
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 Napoleon III
That same year, he began shipping political prisoners and criminals to penal colonies such as Devil's Island or (in milder cases) New Caledonia.
Napoleon did this by razing large sections of the city and replacing its old convoluted streets with many large avenues.
Hoping to achieve military glory to match his uncle Louis Napoleon began the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Napoleon II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
NAPOLEON II [Napoleon II] 1811-32, son of Napoleon I and Marie Louise, known as the king of Rome (1811-14), as the prince of Parma (1814-18), and after that as the duke of Reichstadt.
The Code Napoleon: buried but ruling in Latin America.
Napoleon's Legacy Leads to the Gulag; Two new books about Napoleon and the Soviet Gulag delve into the origins of modern dictatorships and the evils they since have unleashed on millions of people.(Napoleon)(Gulag: A History)(Book Review)
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 Wikinfo | Napoleon I of France
Napoléon Bonaparte (August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821) functioned as effective dictator of France beginning in 1799 and as emperor of France as Napoléon I from May 18, 1804 to April 6, 1814; he also conquered and ruled over much of western and central Europe.
Claims that he seized the crown out of the hands of Pope Pius VII during the ceremony in order to avoid subjecting himself to the authority of the Pontiff are apocryphal; after the Imperial regalia had been blessed by the Pope, Napoléon crowned himself before crowning his wife Josephine as Empress.
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 Napoleon II
Napoleon II Napoleon II, 1811–32, son of Napoleon I and
Reichstadt, Napoleon, duke of - Reichstadt, Napoleon, duke of: see Napoleon II.
Marie Louise - Marie Louise, 1791–1847, empress of the French (1810–15) as consort of Napoleon I and...
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 Napoleon Xiv Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From
Napoleon XIV was actually Jerry Samuels, a 28-year-old recording engineer who had previously...
Napoleon II of France, Napoleon's son Napoleon Francis Joseph...
Back in 1966, Napoleon XIV (Jerry Samuels) had a hit with one of the greatest novelty songs of all...
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 Napoleon Bonaparte quote - The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. - Quotations Book
Napoleon Bonaparte quote - The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles (March 20, 1811 - July 22, 1832), King of Rome.
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 The Iron Fist behind The Invisible Hand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thompson characterized this system of control as "political and social apartheid," and argued that "the revolution which did not happen in England was fully as devastating" as the one that did happen in France [pp.
In England, it was the landed aristocracy; in France, Napoleon II's bureaucracy; in Germany, the Junkers; in Japan, the Meiji.
The modern electronics industry was largely a product of World War II and Cold War spending (e.g., miniaturization of circuits for bomb proximity fuses, high capacity computers for command and control, etc.) [Noble, Forces of Production pp.
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