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Bonaparte's Retreat

The Chieftains 6: Bonaparte's Retreat, an album featuring a recording of "The Bonny Bunch of Roses"

Gid Tanner

Among their best-known songs are "Alabama Jubilee", "Shortnin' Bread", "Old Joe Clark", "Casey Jones", "John Henry", "Bully of the Town", "Bile Them Cabbage Down", "Cotton-Eyed Joe", "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss", "Soldier’s Joy", "Bonaparte's Retreat", "Leather Breeches", "Four Cent Cotton" and their biggest seller, "Down Yonder".


4th Regiment of Line Infantry

Despite the fact that in 1812 Napoleon lost control over Poland, the regiment remained loyal to the emperor and fought in, among others, the bloody Battle of Leipzig and the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube, the penultimate battle of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Action of 19 February 1801

Following an unsuccessful campaign in Syria, Bonaparte returned to France without his army, eventually seizing control of the French government during the events of 18 Brumaire.

Aleksander Fredro

His memoir Topsy Turvy Talk, which echoes the style of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, recounts his military experiences during Bonaparte's last campaign.

André Castaigne

During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.

Barthélémi de Stürmer

Stürmer soon saw impossibility of fulfilling the mission entrusted by Metternich and which was to ensure of his own eyes of the presence of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the island, to denounce any attempt to escape and to write every month a report/ratio in agreement with the other police chiefs.

Battle of Loano

However, Loano enabled the French access to resupply and provided a foothold in the Ligurian Alps which would be exploited in April 1796 by General Bonaparte in the Montenotte Campaign.

Bonaparte Indian Band

The Bonaparte Indian Band aka Bonaparte First Nation, is a member band of the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people.

Bonapartism

In a strict sense, this term refers to people who aimed to restore the French Empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France) and his nephew Louis (Napoleon III of France).

Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine

Early in 1796 he set out with Bonaparte on the Italian campaign, and at Lodi (Lombardy), contributed to the great victory by a brilliant cavalry charge.

Cornwallis's Retreat

Cornwallis led his squadron southwest, rounding Ushant on the night of 7–8 June and cruising southwards down the Breton coast past the Penmarck Rocks.

Dinheirosaurus

The fossils were described in 1999 by Bonaparte and Mateus, after excavations that lasted from 1987, the year of its discovery, to 1992.

Eben Swift

On May 18, 1880 he married Susan Bonaparte Palmer, daughter of Brigadier General Innis N. Palmer, and had five children.

François Macquard

When Bonaparte took over command of the army, Macquard led a small 3,700-man division that guarded the Col de Tende together with Pierre Dominique Garnier's 3,400-strong division.

French coup of 1851

In 1848, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was elected President of France through universal male suffrage, taking 74% of the vote.

Giovanni Antonio Antolini

He designed grandiose Neoclassical projects such as the Foro Bonaparte in Milan, which was never executed, and plans for the Procuratie buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice, which were modified and completed by others.

Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas

Recalled to his native country when Bonaparte became First Consul (1799), Dumas took over the organisation of the "Army of Reserve" at Dijon.

Henry Wikoff

He was friendly with the Bonaparte royal family in France, and was awarded the honor of Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, by the King of Spain in 1871, which gave him the title of "Chevalier".

Italian Campaign

Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars, led by Napoleon Bonaparte between 1796–1797 and 1800

Jacques MacDonald

This achievement is described by Mathieu Dumas, his chief of staff, and is as noteworthy as Bonaparte's passage of the St Bernard before the Battle of Marengo, although MacDonald did not fight a battle.

Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte

The predominant rôle of the Committee of Public Safety during that period did not leave much scope for the new minister, yet he rendered some services in the organization of the republican armies, and chose his officers with insight, among them Kléber, Masséna, Moreau and Bonaparte.

Jean Baptiste Pierre Constant, Count of Suzannet

Suzannet was severely wounded at the Battle of Rocheserviere on June 20, 1815 fighting for King Louis XVIII against troops loyal to Napoleon Bonaparte, as a result of his injuries Suzannet died the next day at Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine.

In 1815 many people in the Vendée did not accept the change of government that Napoleon Bonaparte's return to Paris from exile on the isle of Elba, and hostilities once again broke out in the region.

Jerome B. Holgate

Jerome Bonaparte Holgate (1812-1893) is the name of an author who wrote the dystopian novel A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, in the Year of Our Lord, 19-- (1835).

Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte

He married Susan May Williams, and it is from them that the American line of the Bonaparte family descended.

Jérôme Napoléon Charles Bonaparte

As the eldest son of Jérôme Bonaparte, Jérôme Napoléon had stood to inherit his titles and claims; instead his younger brother Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte succeeded to the Westphalia claim, and his son Napoléon Victor Bonaparte eventually became head of the House of Bonaparte.

Joachim, 6th Prince Murat

Joachim Murat, 6th Prince Murat (Paris, Île-de-France, France, August 6, 1885 – Paris, Île-de-France, France May 11, 1938), was a member of the Bonaparte-Murat family.

Joseph I

Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, who reigned in Naples (1806–1808) and Spain (1808–1813) as Joseph I

Lucien Bonaparte

As president of the Council of Five Hundred — which he removed to the suburban security of Saint-Cloud — Lucien Bonaparte's combination of bravado and disinformation was crucial to the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire (date based on the French Revolutionary Calendar) in which General Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate.

Maximilian Godefroy

Later, as an anti-Bonaparte activist, he was imprisoned in the fortress of Bellegarde, then released about 1805 and allowed to come to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland, where he became an instructor in art and architecture at St. Mary's College, the Sulpician Seminary.

Miss Bonaparte

Miss Bonaparte (French: Mam'zelle Bonaparte) is a 1942 French historical drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Edwige Feuillère, Monique Joyce and Raymond Rouleau.

Montenotte Campaign

On 14 April, Bonaparte directed Masséna and Laharpe to attack Argenteau in the Second Battle of Dego.

Philip Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt

On 21 December 1806, King Louis Bonaparte named both Van Zuylen van Nijevelt and Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau as Marshals; Daendels received the title a few months later.

Pierre-François Bouchard

He was then put in charge of rebuilding of Fort Julien, an old Mamluk fortification near the port city of Rosetta (present-day Rashid) which Bonaparte had renamed after Thomas Prosper Jullien, recently assassinated in Egypt.

Prince of Canino and Musignano

Canino and Musignano are two neighbouring villages in the Province of Viterbo in Italy and the title was bestowed on Lucien Bonaparte by Popes on 18 August 1814 (Prince of Canino) and on 21 March 1824 (Prince of Musignano).

Quiggly hole

It was not just from her account that Teit drew drawings upon which Lillooet's rebuilt si7xten was built, but also from his knowledge of underground houses in the Thompson and Bonaparte valleys - in his day, many people still lived in them.

Roland Bonaparte

There is also a small lake on the mountains above the Coast Sámi/Norwegian village Kvalsund which is called Bonapartesjøen - Lake Bonaparte - after his abovementioned visit to the region.

In 1886, Bonaparte was part of a scientific expedition that photographed and anatomically measured the Sami inhabitants of Northern Norway.

Second Battle of Bassano

The engagement, which happened two months after the more famous Battle of Bassano, marked the first tactical defeat of Bonaparte's career and occurred near Bassano del Grappa in Northern Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars.

Seth Numrich

He made his Broadway debut as Lorenzo in the 2010 revival of The Merchant of Venice and has played the boxer Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy and as Albert in War Horse both at the Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway.

Snowfinch

and 50.7. in the third and fourth editions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the genus Pyrgilauda was thus validly established by Bonaparte as a possible snowfinch genus name – even though he did not intend to – because many authors after J. Verreaux used it for these birds, and not for the sparrow-larks.

Thomas Tonkin

Tonkin put forth in 1737 proposals for printing a history of Cornwall, in three volumes of imperial quarto at three guineas; and on 19 July 1736 he prefixed to a collection of modern Cornish pieces and a Cornish vocabulary, which he had drawn up for printing, a dedication to William Gwavas of Gwavas, his chief assistant (this dedication was sent by Prince L. L. Bonaparte on 30 November 1861 to the 'Cambrian Journal,' and there reprinted to show the indebtedness to Tonkin's labours of William Pryce.

Tsk'weylecw'mc

They historically have close ties and a shared cultural identity with their Secwepemc neighbours, particularly the Bonaparte group, but also with the St'at'imc of Fountain and Lillooet.

Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte

He began it in 1798, painting its subject from life, and it was to represent Bonaparte at the Battle of Rivoli, holding the Treaty of Campo Formio in his hand, but it was never completed.

William Bonaparte-Wyse

William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse was born in Waterford, the son of the politician and educational reformer Sir Thomas Wyse, and Laetitia, daughter of Lucien Bonaparte.


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