Napoleon I, Emperor of France

Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte

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Travel Germaine de Staël
GS left Coppet, eluding Napoleon 's spies, and travelled to St Petersburg through countries not yet under his sway (Austria, Bohemia, and Poland); she then visited Stockholm.
Kobak, Annette. “Mme de Staël and Fanny Burney”. The Burney Journal, Vol.
4
, pp. 12-35.
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Travel Amelia Opie
During the brief interval of peace AO travelled to Paris with her husband , hoping to see Napoleon , whom she then admired.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix.
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Macgregor, Margaret Eliot. Amelia Alderson Opie: Worldling and Friend. Banta, http://PR 5115 O3Z7 M2.
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Travel Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
She later lived in several places in Germany, before returning to France during the reign of Napoleon .
Travel Frances Burney
FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
357-9
Travel Elizabeth Grant
Ports of call on the voyage included Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the island of St Helena, where Elizabeth Smith visited Napoleon 's tomb.
Corely, Jim. “History Articles. Elizabeth Smith—from Bombay to Baltiboys”. Blessington.info.
Travel Anne Damer
In the first winter of her widowhood AD went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann ). This voyage...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susanna Watts
After the pasted-in pages and a section devoted to Tasso , the volume moves to a poem modelled on the tabular lists of good and evil in his life that are kept by Defoe 's...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane West
JW uses heroic couplets for formal poems like To the Island of Sicily (on the retreat of the king and queen of the Two Sicilies before the French Army of Italy, commanded by Napoleon ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helen Maria Williams
Published in two volumes, by G. G. and J. Robinson , this opens with further discussion of Switzerland, after a preface written with maturity and confidence in her own ability to deflect hostile criticism...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Isabella Lickbarrow
Several poems address national political issues, and most of those in this volume express a hatred of war, usually from the point of view of bereaved women. Written at the commencement of the year 1813...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text J. S. Anna Liddiard
The first poem in the volume, The Wreath of Fame, comments on her own daring in aiming for this wreath. Her other topics are the rage of Napoleon (the Man of Slaughter)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mariana Starke
Here MS found the mixture that would characterise all her travel writing: vivid first-hand narrative and evocation, and reliable well-set-out information about practical matters like mileages and information about the state of roads and inns...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Grant
As the title implies, this was written on the model of Anna Letitia Barbauld 's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, though it also rebukes what AG would have seen as Barbauld's defeatism and failure of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Charles
The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Plumptre
This is part travel book and part politically sympathetic account of post-Revolutionary France: even a defence of Napoleon 's record as ruler, with an eye to history, against the prejudice which AP understood to...

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1478: The medieval institution of the Inquisition...

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1478

The medieval institution of the Inquisition was revived as the Spanish Inquisition at the request of the Spanish royal couple Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon .

4 February 1794: Slavery was abolished throughout France and...

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4 February 1794

Slavery was abolished throughout France and its colonies. From this year until 1804 (two years after Napoleon re-instituted slavery under French jurisdiction), the struggle for abolition virtually lapsed in England.

5 October 1795: A Royalist insurrection in Paris was crushed...

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5 October 1795

A Royalist insurrection in Paris was crushed by troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte .

27 March 1796: Napoleon took command of one of the French...

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27 March 1796

Napoleon took command of one of the French armies, the Army of Italy, at Nice.

15 May 1796: Napoleon's army entered Milan, on its revolutionary...

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15 May 1796

Napoleon 's army entered Milan, on its revolutionary mission to liberate Italy from Austrian and other royal rulers.

26 February 1797: The Bank of England, alarmed by a run on...

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26 February 1797

The Bank of England , alarmed by a run on gold prompted by fears of invasion from Napoleonic France, prohibited payments in cash: in May this prohibition was enforced by legislation establishing a period of Restriction.

1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...

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1-3 August 1798

In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet under Nelson attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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23 August 1799: Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed...

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23 August 1799

Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed for Paris, leaving behind him most of the huge haul of the country's artefacts which had already been packed for shipping to France.

14 October 1799: Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended...

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14 October 1799

Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended to seize power.

9-10 November 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France,...

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9-10 November 1799

Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France, overturning the Directory in a coup d'état.

25 December 1799: In France the Constitution of the Year VIII...

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25 December 1799

In France the Constitution of the Year VIII was implemented. This constitution set up a Council of State and a Consulate headed by a First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte . It was completed on 22 Frimaire...

14 June 1800: In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon...

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14 June 1800

In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon (recently appointed First Consul of France) defeated the Austrian Empire at the battle of Marengo in Northern Italy.

17 May 1803: Britain declared war on France again, after...

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17 May 1803

Britain declared war on France again, after only just over a year's peace, in response to the expansionism of Napoleon .

July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...

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July 1803

An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon 's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.

23 July 1803: Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a...

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23 July 1803

Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a rising which was designed to seize Dublin Castle and take the Viceroy hostage.

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