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Joseph Bonaparte
- Treaty of SchönbrunnAustrian forces under Archduke Charles repulsed French troops at the Battle of Aspern on 21-the 22nd of May 1809. This victory offered a brief hope before…
- Concordat of 1801On the 15th of July 1801, in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII put their names to a document that neither of them entirely wanted.
- Julie ClaryJulie Clary was the Queen of Spain who never set foot in Spain. Born on the 26th of December 1771 in Marseille, she married into the most powerful family in…
- Abdications of BayonneThe Abdications of Bayonne took place across three days in May 1808, when Napoleon I extracted the Spanish Crown from two kings simultaneously.
- Joseph BonaparteJoseph Bonaparte arrived in the United States in the summer of 1815, hiding aboard a merchant vessel called the Commerce under the false name M. Bouchard.
- Treaty of AmiensThe War of the Second Coalition began with early victories for the coalition forces in Egypt, Italy, and Germany. France soon turned the tide with decisive…
- Treaty of LunévilleThe Austrian army had been defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Marengo on the 14th of June 1800. Jean Victor Moreau then crushed the Austrians at…
- Napoleon's tombIn early 1840, the French government led by Adolphe Thiers made a bold political decision to return Napoleon's remains from Saint Helena.
- Battle of Paris (1814)On the morning of the 30th of March 1814, the city of Paris woke to the sound of artillery. For two decades, Napoleon had carried war to every corner of…
- Battle of SomosierraOn the 30th of November 1808, at a mountain pass 60 miles north of Madrid, a Polish cavalry officer named Jan Kozietulski called out to his men in French…