Napoleon Bonaparte mb-code RS-10088 the Irish politician

the Irish politician

Bogart and Bacall in a scene from The Big Sleep (1946)

leading to the creation of the independent states of Colombia (1819)

Plate 34 from Volume 2 of Travels in the Interior of North America by Karl Bodmer

Mount Pleasant

Napoleon Bonaparte mb-code RS-10088 the Irish politicianNapoleon Bonaparte, 1840. Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 1821) made in the year of the Battle of Waterloo (1815). Napoleon enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks of the French Revolutionary army. In 1799 he led a coup to overthrow the government, the Directory, and became first consul and effective dictator of France. In 1804, he declared himself Emperor, and embarked on a series of military campaigns across Europe, the Napoleonic Wars.