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  2. Italian campaign of 1796–1797 - Wikipedia

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    The campaign demonstrated Napoleon's abilities as a leader of the French Army. Bonaparte became famous in France, and became well-known throughout all of Europe. Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, a French representative of the Directory, stated about Napoleon post-campaign: “The General-in-Chief has rendered the most important services.…

  3. Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Wikipedia

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    Bourrienne left to become head of the police, but soon was recalled because Bonaparte needed him. He remained in Paris during the second Italian campaign, after which he watched with admiration as his friend continued to organize France so that it would be governed effectively under clearly codified laws by the talented men he brought into the ...

  4. Hundred Days - Wikipedia

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    The Hundred Days (French: les Cent-Jours IPA: [le sɑ̃ ʒuʁ]), [4] 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).

  5. China is a sleeping giant - Wikipedia

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    The quote is often labelled as "attributed" to Napoleon or given with a warning that he may not have said it, [1] but Napoleon specialist and Fondation Napoléon historian Peter Hicks declares that Napoleon never said "Laissons la Chine dormir, car quand elle se réveillera, le monde tremblera" (Let China sleep, for when she awakes, the world ...

  6. 13 Vendémiaire - Wikipedia

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    Young General Napoleon Bonaparte was aware of the commotion, and he arrived at the Convention around this time to find out what was happening. He was quickly ordered to join Barras' forces mustering for the defence of the Republic. Bonaparte accepted, but only on the condition that he was granted complete freedom of movement. [citation needed]

  7. Paris under Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    The American inventor, Robert Fulton, who was in Paris to try to sell his inventions, the steamboat, a submarine and a torpedo, to Napoleon, bought the patent in 1799 from the inventor of the panorama, the English artist Robert Barker, and opened the first panorama in Paris in July 1799; it was a Vue de Paris by the painters Constant Bourgeois ...

  8. Bonapartism - Wikipedia

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    20 April 1808, Paris Son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais: Eugénie de Montijo 30 January 1853 1 child: 9 January 1873 Chislehurst Aged 64 Napoléon, Prince Imperial (Napoleon IV) 1873–1879: 16 March 1856, Paris Son of Napoleon III and Eugénie de Montijo: Never married: 1 June 1879 Zulu Kingdom Aged 23 Prince Napoléon-Jérôme ...

  9. Joachim Murat - Wikipedia

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    He was the first Prince Murat, [1] Grand Duke of Berg from 1806 to 1808, [2] and King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon [3] (Italian: Gioacchino Napoleone) from 1808 to 1815. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Born in Labastide-Fortunière in south-western France , Murat briefly pursued a vocation in the clergy before enlisting in a cavalry regiment on the outbreak of ...