NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Definition & Meaning

Napoleon Bonaparte

A French general, political leader, and emperor of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Bonaparte rose swiftly through the ranks of army and government during and after the French Revolution and crowned himself emperor in 1804. He conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion of Russia . After his final loss to Britain and Prussia at the Battle of Waterloo , he was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic Ocean .

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Notes

Because Napoleon was short, overly aggressive men of short stature are sometimes said to have a “Napoleon complex.”

Napoleon's name is often connected with overreaching military ambition and delusions of grandeur.

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Beneath that on the bedside table is a biography of military genius Napoleon Bonaparte.

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The president of the United States posted a possibly apocryphal quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte on social media Saturday: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

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She was mesmerized by the smooth-talking Sonny, who raffishly claimed to be a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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The idea to transport imposing obelisks to Paris came about at the turn of the 19th century, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt.

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Researchers have been excavating the Belgian battlefield site of Napoleon Bonaparte’s last stand, the infamous Battle of Waterloo, since 2012.

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