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    Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a...
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    Lodewijk Bonaparte, King of Holland Sarcophagus Carlo Maria Buonaparte Tomb Lodewijk Napoleon with the faces of Napoleon Charles Bonaparte, Napoleon Louis...
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    between Great Britain and the French Republic under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte the Orange exiles were at their nadir. The Dutch Brigade was dissolved...
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  • Napoleon left Elba on 26 February, however the title wasn't disestablished until 9 June. Though Napoléon and Joséphine had divorced in 1806, Napoléon...
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    Lodewijk Sigismund Vincent Gustaaf Reichsgraf van Heiden (German: Ludwig Sigismund Vinzent Gustav Reichsgraf van Heyden; Russian: Логгин (Логин) Петрович...
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    and the "Second Prizes" were awarded to the runners-up. In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte moved the French Academy in Rome to the Villa Medici, with the intention...
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    Paxoi in late 1813 and Parga in March 1814. Following the Abdication of Napoleon, the French governor-general in Corfu, François-Xavier Donzelot, capitulated...
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    (Terraferma), and the eventual Fall of the Republic of Venice to Napoleon Bonaparte in May 1797. In the Ionian Islands, the news of the French advance...
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    that his initials would read "N.B.", mimicking those of his hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. Lady Byron eventually succeeded to the Barony of Wentworth, becoming...
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    Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012. Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Notes on English History made on the Eve of the French Revolution...
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    the École Polytechnique before joining the 1st Artillery Regiment in Napoleon’s army in Germany in 1804. He participated in the 1805 Ulm Campaign, and...
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    alliance with Napoleon Bonaparte, who was fighting in Egypt; Napoleon was to strike the Ottoman Empire in coordination with a Greek revolt. Napoleon's failure...
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    Louis Bonaparte sent the brigade in September 1808, to take part in the Peninsular War on the French side at the request of his brother Emperor Napoleon of...
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    large Greek community, as part of an effort to ask the French general Napoleon Bonaparte for assistance and support. While in the city, he edited a Greek-language...
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    the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. He fought at the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. After the war ended in 1815, he resigned from Napoleon's Army and worked...
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    Ottomans in the mid-15th century. In 1807, the republic was ceded to Napoleon's French Empire, but the islands kept their institutions of government....
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    Rigny, the British admiral Edward Codrington, and the Russian admiral Lodewijk van Heiden was later erected on the central square of Pylos. The monument...
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  • Wars, and was appointed aide-de-camp to Joseph Bonaparte, who had been appointed King of Spain by Napoleon. However, following the Emperor's exile to Elba...
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    Governor-General François-Xavier Donzelot. On the birth of Napoleon II, the son and heir of Napoleon, Romas was a member of an Ionian delegation sent to Paris...
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  • chief painter for King Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (known as Louis I, Lodewijk I in Dutch), brother of emperor Napoleon Bonaparte I, he died at age 45. Soon...
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    of Holland, a French puppet kingdom ruled by Napoleon's third brother Louis Bonaparte (Lodewijk Napoleon). The East Indies were treated as a proxy French...
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    could not take part in the siege, being stationed in Malta, but Admiral Lodewijk van Heiden had long since offered to be at the disposal of General Maison...
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    ISBN 9781350349544. Fleming, Katherine Elizabeth (1999). The Muslim Bonaparte: diplomacy and orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece. Princeton University...
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    suppressed or played down. The Ottoman massacres at Chios in 1822 inspired Eugène Delacroix's famous painting Massacre of Chios; other philhellenic works...
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    to recover Egypt from a French occupation between 1798 and 1801 under Napoleon, against whom Vrioni was distinguished in battles. In Egypt he served the...
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    the Bavarians in the military operations which led to the abdication of Napoleon. There he gained novel experiences of war and a taste for extensive travel...
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    In 1805, he joined the I Corps of the Grande Armée assembled by Emperor Napoleon I and participated in the Battle of Austerlitz. During the campaign of...
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  • Benedict Móric Beňovský Polly Bergen Ingmar Bergman Humphrey Bogart Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of the French) Bono Charles Boyer Marlon Brando Franz Brentano...
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    but one episode had important consequences. When the French under Napoleon Bonaparte seized Venice in 1797, they also acquired the Ionian Islands, thus...
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  • two such companies be attached to the royal guards of Napoleon and his brother Joseph Bonaparte, the King of Naples. This plan was soon shelved, and Berthier...
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