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The French Imperial Eagle (French: Aigle de drapeau, lit. ' flag eagle ' ) was a figure carried into battle as a standard by the Grande Armée of Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars . Although they were presented with regimental colours , Napoleon's regiments tended to carry at their head the Imperial Eagle.
The House of Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) [a] is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of French and Italian origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I , the son of Corsican nobleman Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Buonaparte (née Ramolino).
The House of Bonaparte was a royal dynasty started by Napoleon I, son of Carlo Bonaparte. The family formed the Imperial House of France during the first French Empire. The house last ruled until 1871, when they were ultimately ousted due to the effects of the Franco-Prussian War. Here are their individual seals:
Napoleon II (Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte; 20 March 1811 – 22 July 1832) was the disputed Emperor of the French for a few weeks in 1815. He was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. Napoleon II had been Prince Imperial of France and King of Rome since birth.
Azure, an Eagle Or, head facing to the sinister, clutching in its talons a Thunderbolt Or. [1] [2] King of Italy: Arms of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy: Napoleon I of France by Andrea Appiani: 17 March 1805 11 April 1814: An escutcheon, with a silver pale charged with the blue Milanic serpent (spitting out the first human for the Duchy of ...
Originally raised as part of the Dutch Royal Guard when Louis Bonaparte, brother to Napoleon, was made King of Holland. In 1810 the unit was incorporated into the Imperial Guard within the Middle Guard as the 2nd Regiment of Foot Grenadiers (2 e Régiment de Grenadiers-à-Pied de la Garde Impériale). It was disbanded 15 February 1813 after ...
Napoleon also used the French Imperial Eagle in the heraldry of the First Empire, as did his nephew Napoleon III during the Second Empire. An eagle remains in the arms of the House of Bonaparte and the current royal house of Sweden retains the French Imperial Eagle on its dynastic inescutcheon , as his founder, Jean Bernadotte , was a Marshal ...
The Staff of the Grande Armée was known as the Imperial Headquarters and was divided into two major sections: Napoleon's Military Household and the Army General Headquarters. A third department dependent on the Imperial Headquarters was the office of the Intendant Général (Quartermaster General), providing the administrative staff of the army.