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Encyclopedia > Napoleon (disambiguation)

Napoleon is the name of France's two emperors of the Bonaparte dynasty: Of Corsican origin, the Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) family is the family of Napoleon I, who was elected as first consul of France on November 10, 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud. ...

The title of Napoleon II of France was applied by Bonapartists to Napoleon's son Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles Bonaparte, King of Rome, (1811-1832) who never reigned. Bonaparte as general, by Antoine-Jean Gros. ... Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808, Paris, France - January 9, 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England) was a President of France, and later, Emperor of the French. ... Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte (March 20, 1811 -July 22, 1832), Duke of Reichstadt, was briefly the second Emperor of the French. ... In French political history, Bonapartists were monarchists who desired a French Empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France) and his nephew Louis (Napoleon III of France). ...


Later heads of the Bonaparte house have borne the title of Prince Napoleon. Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (Trieste, Italy, September 9, 1822-Rome, Italy March 17, 1891) was the son of Jerome Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg. ...

  • The Napoleonic Wars is the name given to the military conflicts that engulfed Europe as Napoleon I attempted to conquer the continent.
  • The Code Napoleon is a legal code instituted by Napoleon I in France in 1803. It subsequently spread as French armies conquered Europe putting countries throughout the continent under French governance. This civil code remains the basis of the legal system in much of continental Europe and elsewhere.
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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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