Napoleon Bonaparte mb-code RS-10088 A plan of Rome

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Hudson Gurney was elected a Fellow of Royal Society in 1818

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

Napoleon Bonaparte mb-code RS-10088 A plan of RomeNapoleon 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.