The naval Battle of Trafalgar in the summer of 1805 disrupted Napoleon’s plan for an invasion of Britain. Although the Franco-Spanish fleet incurred heavy casualties and Admiral Villeneuve committed suicide as a result of the battle, the most able British commander, Admiral Horatio Nelson, also perished in the struggle and many British sailors died. As ...
Third son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais, the future emperor was born in Paris on Wednesday 20 April 1808 at one o’clock in the morning, eleven months after the death of his elder brother Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. They are, with the king of Rome, the only princes of the family who were ...
Napoleon Bonaparte went through his youth studying at various French military schools. His success paid off when he became a military general in King Louis XVI at the age of twenty-four. During the French Revolution he rose to power politically and joined the revolution. When England, Austria, and Russia attempted to put down the revolution ...
The Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815, was Napoleon’s final military encounter and a defeat from which he would not recover. On June 17, 1815, heavy rains struck the area around Mont-Saint-Jean, and the military operations of both the French and the British forces experienced a delay. The next day the land had not ...
After Napoleon’s troops occupied Egypt, the remaining obstacles to the French promise of Egyptian security were the British fleet and the forces of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan sent an expeditionary corps to encounter the French near Aboukir Bay, while the fleet of Horatio Nelson assailed the unprepared armada of Bruaise on August 1, ...
Prior to shaping the world with his deeds, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) needed to win the struggle against the social and attitudinal forces that were all staked against one genius with a will of steel. He was born into the name “Napoleone Buonaparte” (the name was altered to its more familiar state in 1796) on August ...
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