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The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [3]
Napoleon masked the Duke of Wellington's army and massed against the Prussian Army, and then after the Battle of Ligny was won, Napoleon attempted to do the same to the British-Allied force (British, Dutch, and Hanoverian) located just to the south of Waterloo. His subordinate was unable to mask the defeated Prussian Army, who reinforced the ...
The piece describes a fire in a Chicago hotel in which, coincidentally, the last notes played on an organ were "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town, To-night." The article apparently assumed that the reader would understand the reference and tune, suggesting that the musical phrase had an earlier origin.
But Poulet a la Marengo outlived Napoleon, and the restoration of the monarchy, and the resurrection of the empire, AND the subsequent French flirtations with more revolutions (1830, 1848, 1871 ...
Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (French: Bonaparte devant le Sphinx) is an 1886 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is also known as Oedipus ( Œdipe ). It depicts Napoleon Bonaparte during his Egyptian campaign , positioned on horseback in front of the Great Sphinx of Giza , with his army in the background.
The Hundred Days (French: les Cent-Jours IPA: [le sɑ̃ ʒuʁ]), [3] also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition (French: Guerre de la Septième Coalition), marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).
Mrs. O'Leary's Cow may refer to: The cow belonging to Mrs. Catherine O'Leary , often blamed in folklore for starting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" , an instrumental song by Brian Wilson
The explosion killed the horse, young Marianne, and as many as a dozen bystanders. Some 40 others were wounded, and several buildings were damaged or destroyed. Napoleon’s wife Joséphine, her daughter Hortense de Beauharnais, and Napoleon’s sister Caroline Murat (pregnant with her son Achille) were travelling in a carriage behind Napoleon’s.