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Vor 5 Tagen · Mai 1809 hatte Napoleon den Nimbus der Unbesiegbarkeit verloren. Dass es Erzherzog Karl (1771–1847) zufiel, zum „Retter des Vaterlandes“ zu werden, verdankte er dem Zufall. Weil Kaiser ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Napoleon I, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. Napoleon played a key role in the French Revolution (1789–99), served as first consul of France (1799–1804), and was the first emperor of France (1804–14/15).
- Napoleon first seized political power in a coup d’état in 1799. The coup resulted in the replacement of the extant governing body—a five-member Dir...
- Napoleon served as first consul of France from 1799 to 1804. In that time, Napoleon reformed the French educational system, developed a civil code...
- After a series of military defeats in 1812–13, Napoleon was forced to abdicate the French throne on April 6, 1814. Napoleon returned to power in ea...
- No! “Le Petit Caporal” wasn’t petite—at least not by 19th-century standards. The estimated average height of a French man in 1820 was 5 feet 4 inch...
Vor 2 Tagen · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), and produced a ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Napoleons Rückkehr und Niederlage bei der großen Schlacht von Waterloo (18. Juni) mit anschließender Verbannung nach St. Helena (Oktober 1815). Dort stirbt der größte Feldheer in der Geschichte des 19. Jahrhundert am 05.05.1821.
Vor 3 Tagen · One of the last chapters in the book (pp. 175–99), covering the period between Napoleon’s first abdication (1814) and his death while in exile on St Helena (1821), roughly coincides with a period of radicalism and protest against state corruption in Britain.
Vor 5 Tagen · The wheels of history turned in a direction that could have been anticipated by Beethoven, and on the 18 th of May 1804, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France. The news traveled to Beethoven via his student Ries, whose account of the composer’s reaction was taken as absolute truth.
Vor 4 Tagen · Joséphine (born June 23, 1763, Trois-Îlets, Martinique—died May 29, 1814, Malmaison, France) was the consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of the French. Joséphine, the eldest daughter of Joseph Tascher de La Pagerie, an impoverished aristocrat who had a commission in the navy, lived the first 15 years of her life on the island of Martinique.
