Sentence examples for bonaparte from inspiring English sources

(The Third Symphony was originally called the "Bonaparte", but Beethoven became disenchanted with Napoleon when he crowned himself emperor and changed the name to "Eroica", a homage to heroes).

Napoleon's biographers have been disentangling the record ever since and few have made as painstaking an effort as Frank McLynn.His biography of Bonaparte was published in Britain five years ago and might have been expected to appear in America much sooner than this had that field not been held by Robert Asprey's recent two-volume biography of Napoleon (Basic Books, 2000-01).

When Bonaparte ducked out, and fled to France, he left Kléber holding the baby.

"Bonaparte is advancing at a great pace but will never enter Paris".

Kléber was furious, and ex-pressed in unprintable language what he would do to Bonaparte when he got home.

Marceau was a general under the Republic, killed in battle before Bonaparte came to power.

At the same time, much of Selim's energy was diverted by the rise of powerful autonomous notables in southeastern Europe, Anatolia, and the Arab provinces, as well as by a French expedition to Egypt (1798 1801) under Napoleon Bonaparte (later Napoleon I).

Britain first took possession of it in 1815 lest it be used as a staging post to rescue Napoleon Bonaparte from exile in St Helena.

ADAM OZIMEK is reading Greg Mankiw's "The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer", which contains this gem of a quote from Robert Solow, on neo-classical economists:Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

In Philip Haythornthwaite's "Who Was Who in the Napoleonic Wars" there is a photograph of Cochrane, taken late in his long life, which shows what a formidable man he was.Yet none was so formidable as Napoleon Bonaparte, the second son of a lawyer from an insignificant Mediterranean island who rose to dominate the western world and thrust it into a war that left Moscow and Washington burned.

The executive suite looks like the set of a costume drama but the top brass still gather there and banter the nearest you can get to a water-cooler moment in a building in which Napoleon Bonaparte got married.In this section Take that Goalless draw A new epic Engine trouble Floor to ceiling Bailing out Stop.