Sentence examples for Napoleon from inspiring English sources
The word "Napoleon" is correct in written English
It can be used when referring to the historical figure, Napoleon Bonaparte, or in contexts related to his legacy. Example: "Napoleon is often remembered for his military strategies and the establishment of the Napoleonic Code."
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Napoleon apparently took several barrels with him on his exile to St Helena, while Kanye West and P Diddy sprinkle their lyrics with references to it: cognac is one of the world's most enduringly popular tipples and yet the corner of southwest France which produces it is largely overlooked by tourists.
Canning and others also helped to transform the diplomatic architecture of Europe after the end of Napoleon.
Napoleon in his day counted 1,350 in what was known as the City of a Thousand Minarets.
Napoleon later paraded through it, as did the Nazis with their torches after seizing power in 1933, with glitterati looking on from the balcony of the Adlon hotel on the embassy's eastern side.Looking in the opposite direction is the land, unmarked but for a tiny plaque, where Adolf Hitler's bunker and chancellery once sprawled.
Some 86 people have already been charged.France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, proposed sweeping judicial reforms, including the abolition of independent investigating magistrates first brought in by Napoleon.
Nelson, the seasick admiral who would surely fail the medical entry tests of any modern navy, still destroyed Britain's rivals afloat, while on land Napoleon plucked men from the lower ranks and made them the marshals who threw the eagle's shadow over a continent.
The French connection with the region, he reminds the reader, long predates Napoleon.
Merkel kicked off her day with a speech to a joint session of parliament in the royal gallery, which is decorated with the Daniel Maclise portrait of the meeting of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussian field marshal Blücher before the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.
Legend has it that Napoleon said he wouldn't leave Moscow until he saw Novodevichy burn, and his soldiers supposedly attempted to blow up the convent's main cathedral.
Although these relics of the bank's recent delusions of grandeur remain, Klaus-Peter Müller, the bank's Napoleon-sized chief executive, has been reducing his empire.The new size and financial health of Germany's fourth-largest bank have attracted fresh takeover rumours.
This can dissuade highly educated foreigners from staying in America, or entering it at all.Paul Brogan MontrealKnowing your wineSIR – As any serious "claret hedonist" knows, in 1855 a jury of Bordeaux elites, assembled at the invitation of Napoleon III, who wished to celebrate the superiority of all things French, published a classification system of top-rated Bordeaux wine chateaux.
