Napoleon Bonaparte

Indeed the major battle the French fought between 1805 and 1809 were four and not three.

Austerlitz - Dec. 2, 1805;

Jena-Auerstadt- Oct. 14, 1806;

Eylau - Feb. 8, 1807;

Wagram - July 5-6, 1809.

The Napoleonic Code was a set of legal rules and guidelines.

Josephine de Beauharnais and Marie Louise of Austria.

Nothing. Louis XVII was the youngest son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette , who were both executed in 1793. Louis XVII died aged 10 in 1795 and never reigned.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself emperor in 1799.

He was quite popular; and while he was a tyrant, he was considered to be a significant improvement over the Bourbon Aristocracy by most of the population of France.

Yes he did. He invaded all the other countries of Europe from Spain, Italy, Austria to Russia and replaced the heads of state with his own relatives (except for Russia of course which he did not succeed in conquering). One of his own officers said Napoleon's ambitions was mad and had no bounds.

So much for the French Democracy - Liberty Equality, Friendship goals.

Starvation and exposure, some to battlefield injuries.

Rather than face Napoleon's troops in battle, the Russians kept pulling back deeper into the country. As they retreated, the burned crops and took all the food they could carry. The French troops eventually out ran their supply lines.

The Russians finally stood their ground after Tzar Alexander I fired his commander Field Marshall Barclay de Tolly and appointed Prince Mikhail Kutuzov as the Commander-in-Chief. Kutzov met Napoleon's troops near Moscow at the Battle of Borodino. Over 250,000 troops fought resulting in over 70,000 deaths. Because the French had no resupply, but the took Moscow anyway.

Kutuzov evacuated the city, set it afire, and emptied the prisons. Napoleon tried to initiate peace talks with the Tzar, but Alexander refused to reach compromise. Napoleon pulled his troops out of Moscow and began the long retreat back to France, only to be overtaken by the harsh Russian winter.

Of Napoleon's 685,000 troops, 380,000 died in battle and over starvation and exposure to the winter. Only 120,000 troops returned to France with Napoleon, roughly 80,000 troops deserted.

Briefly (1798-1801, though he returned to France in 1799).

Napoleon Bonaparte was the Emperor France from 1804 to 1814 and created a legal code called the Napoleonic Code. Laws could only be enforced if they were published officially, judges could not refuse to be just on the grounds of insufficiency of the law, and it established the dominance of man over wife and children. Other codes covered the right to choose a profession, religious toleration, equality of all citizens before the law, abolition of serfdom, protection of property rights, and .making strikes as well as unions illegal.

Like Hitler, Napoleon intended to invade England, but was never able to concentrate the ships and men to do so. He formed the 'Army of England', which was intended to be comprised of the 50,000 troops he estimated would do the job. These troops were never available, and he abandoned the plan.

England however, planned a defense, which relied on Fencibles, Yeomanry, Militia, and armed civilians in addition to Regular troops, and depended upon a 'scorched earth' strategy intended to deprive Napoleon's army of forage. Eventually, the 'scorched earth' approach was abandoned in favour of a more conventional defense which was, of course, never used.

In 1797, however, the French did attempt to invade Ireland with 500 troops, but the ships carrying them were destroyed by a squadron under Edward Pellew.

Perhaps for Military brilliance and perhaps for Political savvy, but he also had many progressive ideas.

The Duke of Wellington, with lots of help from the Prussians under Field Marshal Blucher.

Both were soldiers and both died in exile.

The most vile thing about Russia. It's dreaded winter. So the French Imperial Army defeated the army, but not mother nature. When a huge fire broke out in the city, started by the Russian resistance in the city, there was little food left or clean and few nearby cities that weren't sacked, so the only way to go was allied Poland(called the grand duchy of Warsaw then). Some 40,000 men died on the way.

As in WW2 the Russians had 2 great Generals: General January & General February.

It is assumed that he in fact did die of syphilis, however, some experts believe that he died of cancer instead.

The Korean War was, in a way, a draw - in that it stopped with a cease fire in 1952, and has been in that official status ever since.

No, Napoleon didn't support free speech.

1. He limited the press to a few newspapers for propaganda to make Napoleon look favorable.

2. Napoleon creates a police state in France.

Creates a spy system in France in which Fouche, chief of police, ruthlessly eliminated anyone to be found rebellious.

This clearly was a indicator that Napoleon didn't favor Free speech.

Napoleon wanted an heir who would take over his Empire when he died, and Josephine could not have children. So they divorced and Napoleon married Marie Luise of Austria who gave him a son Napoleon II.

Napoleon was more concerned with Grand Strategy and Logistics, though mainly logistics, having stated famously that amateurs talked about strategy, and professionals about logistics. In terms of tactics, Napoleon used highly mobile artillery concentrated in numbers at the front, and infantry advancing quickly in column (most other armies fought defensively in line). His usual approach was to shatter the enemy's strongest point with a hammer blow and then mop up in detail. Barring this, his versatility allowed him to use any number of other approaches when appropriate. For example, a total encirclement at Ulm.

The Siberian desert was too hard to infiltrate

The French Republic was fighting with the British close to the French mainland and sough to force the British to withdraw from this side of the conflict. Napoleon decided to capture Egypt as the first stage in an effort to threaten British India, and thus force Great Britain to make peace with France in Europe.

Louis-Napoleon, the Emperor Napoleon III, surrendered his sword to the king of Prussia, after the Battle of Sedan, became a prisoner of war and was held with his aids in comfortable captivity in the Castle of Wilhelmshoehe near Kassel, from Sept. 5, 1870 through March 19,1871.

After his removal from power, decided by the French National Assembly on March 1, 1871 and the start of preliminary of peace, which took place on 3rd September, he was released by Bismarck, who saw no reason to farther prolong his confinement and went in voluntary exile to England with his wife Eugenie de Montijo, where he died on January 9, 1873.