Napoleon Bonaparte - Horrible Histories Song - Lyric Video

Name: Napoleon Bonaparte Also known as: Emperor Napoleon Country: France Years alive: 1769 - 1821 1st reign: 1804 - 1814 / 2nd reign: 1815 - 1815 Number: I (1) Known for: Being a French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. Napoleon annexed territories in the Low Countries and Western Germany. Satellite kingdoms were set up in other parts of Germany and Italy, in Spain and Poland. During Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign, a French soldier discovered a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing at the City of Rosetta in July 1799. (Rosetta was located on a tributary of the Nile near the Mediterranean coast East of Alexandria.) In March 1801, Allied forces landed in Alexandria. They defeated the French General Menou and British General Hutchinson claimed that the archaeological and scientific discoveries of the French, including the Rosetta Stone, were property of the British Crown. Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, Napoleon made his elder Brother Joseph King of Spain, his younger Brother Louis King of Holland, his youngest Brother Jérôme King of Westphalia (a short-lived realm created from several states of North-Western Germany) and his younger Sister Caroline Queen Consort of Naples. In 1812, Napoleon invaded the Russian Empire which backfired. The desperate Russians adopted a "scorched-earth" policy: whenever they retreated, they burned the places they left behind. This way, Napoleon's army had trouble finding supplies and grew progressively weaker the farther they walked. (The Russian Winter didn't help either!) Napoleon was first exiled to Elba where he stayed for ten months from May 1814 to February 1815. (Elba is an island in between Corsica and Italy.) Napoleon built up his Navy during those ten months, as he had taken some soldiers with him to Elba, and returned back to France. After the famous Battle of Waterloo on June 18th 1815, Napoleon was sent to exile on the island of Saint Helena - a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean - where he remained until his death on May 5th 1821.