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Jan 2, 2015 · The USA also offered Napoleon new opportunities as well as safety from danger. On its southern border lay the vast territories of Central and South America, currently in the throes of revolution ...
Dec 28, 2014 · Napoleon's attempt to reach the USA is one of the great 'what ifs' of history. The secret escape he abandoned on July 13-14 was entirely feasible; his brother Joseph embarked clandestinely at a ...
- 1769 – Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1779 – A Future General
- 1798 – The Expedition to Egypt
- 1800 – The Deuxième Campagne d’Italie
- 1803 – The Musée Napoléon, The Greatest Museum in The World!
- 1804 – Napoleon I’s Coronation
- 1805 – The Victory at Austerlitz
- 1810 – A New Empress!
- 1812 – War with Russia
- 1814 – Napoleon Is Defeated and The End of The Empire
On 15 August 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, in Corsica, into a aristocratic family. He parents, Charles and Letizia already had one son, called Joseph. There would eventually be five boys (Joseph, Napoleon, Lucien, Louis and Jerome) and three girls (Elisa, Caroline and Pauline) in the family. Napoleon was mischievous and disruptive a...
When he was ten years-old, Napoleon left Corsica to go to military school in Brienne (near Auxerre). This was a school reserved for boys from aristocratic families. Napoleon read a lot, especially history books, and he was good at mathematics as well. He did not have many friends though, and his classmates made fun of his Corsican accent. When he w...
In 1798, Napoleon was sent by his government to… Egypt! The expedition was top-secret: the troops left from different ports and the soldiers did not initially know where they were going. The French won some battles, but the heat, the desert, thirst and long marches tired out the soldiers. Napoleon eventually had to return to Paris with some of his ...
Napoleon had to confront Austria, a country which could not accept him as leader of France. To take the enemy by surprise, Napoleon and his army, including canons, ammunition and horses, crossed the Alps. During the month of May there is a lot of snow, and the Austrians could not believe it! Napoleon won a decisive battle at Marengo on 14 June 1800...
In 1792, the Musée Central des Arts was opened in the Palais du Louvre. It was to bring together the greatest works of art and sculpture so that the general public could admire them. Young artists would also go along to improve their technique by copying the paintings and pictures. In 1803, the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. Museums were al...
On 2 December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French in the cathédrale Notre-Dame in Paris. He took the name Napoleon I. His wife Joséphine was also crowned Empress. The pope made a special journey from Rome to attend the grand ceremony, which lasted for more than five hours. Did you know… that Napoleon commissioned the painter ...
The kings of France’s neighbouring countries joined forces to attack Napoleon. However, Napoleon and his Grande Armée (French Imperial army) won a number of important victories, such as that at Austerlitz on 2 December 1805 (now part of the Czech Republic). Between 1805 and 1810, Napoleon won many battles and extended his empire in Europe. Did you ...
In 1796, Napoleon had married Joséphine de Beauharnais, but they did not have any children. As a result, Napoleon divorced Joséphine because she could not give him the son he wanted to create a dynasty (a family that reigns over France from father to son). Napoleon remarried on 2 April 1810, taking the princess Marie-Louise as his wife. She was the...
In 1812, Napoleon left France again to go to war with Tzar Alexander I, the emperor of Russia. He got as far as Moscow, but the cold (often dropping below -20 degrees Celsius!), hunger and the long distances travelled exhausted the soldiers. It was a big failure and Napoleon was unable to force the Tzar to sign a peace treaty. Napoleon and his troo...
France was invaded by Napoleon’s enemies. He led a final campaign against the invaders, known as the ‘Campagne de France’. It was the first time for a long while that war had taken place in France itself. Despite a few victories, Napoleon abandoned power (called ‘abdicating’) on 6 April 1814, at Fontainebleau. The victors sent him into exile on a l...
Jun 15, 2015 · The forgotten story of how Napoleon wanted to start a new life in America. By Ishaan Tharoor. June 15, 2015 at 7:00 a.m. EDT. A man dressed as Napoleon takes part in a reenactment of the Armistice ...
9-10 November 1799 - returned to Paris and effected a coup d'état. Napoleon took control of the city, named himself First Consul, and moved into the Palais des Tuileries, near the Louvre. The Consulate was dissolved when Napoleon became Emperor five years later. 14 June 1800 - battle of Marengo, northern Italy.
This is the first full-length examination of the Bonapartists who emigrated from France after Napoleon's defeat and exile, who formed a loose confederation with adventurers and romantics, and who contemplated a new empire in the Western Hemisphere. The scheme had the support and encouragement of the fallen emperor himself and his brother Joseph ...
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June 2015. Illustration by Tim O’Brien. "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m ...
