Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Corsican family, all brothers of Napoleon I, including Joseph (1768–1844), king of Naples (1806–1808) and Spain (1808–1813); Lucien (1775–1840), who disapproved of Napoleon's policies; Louis (1778–1846), who was king of Holland (1806–1810) and fought with Napoleon in Italy (1796–1797) and Egypt (1798–1799); and Jérôme (1784–1860), who was king of Westphalia (1807–1813), fought at Waterloo (1815), became marshal of France (1850), and was president of the senate under Napoleon III.
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- proper noun A
Corsican surname - proper noun Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
- proper noun The family of Napoleon Bonaparte
- proper noun A former name for the island of
Réunion
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- noun French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
Etymologies
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Examples
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As to the means of getting rid of Bonaparte, there is one, the issue of which cannot be doubtful: this is force: but the allies are unwilling to have recourse to it, unless in the last extremity; and they would have wished, _that M. Fouché could have found means of delivering France from Bonaparte_, without shedding fresh torrents of blood. "
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807
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The ill-fated attempt by Napoleon III to make Maximilian emperor of Mexico had left Evarts, like many Americans, extremely uneasy about France and her aspirations in the Western Hemisphere and anything but trustful of anyone with the name Bonaparte, even so amiable a Bonaparte as Lieutenant Wyse.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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The ill-fated attempt by Napoleon III to make Maximilian emperor of Mexico had left Evarts, like many Americans, extremely uneasy about France and her aspirations in the Western Hemisphere and anything but trustful of anyone with the name Bonaparte, even so amiable a Bonaparte as Lieutenant Wyse.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Able was I ere I saw Elba: On this day in 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte is banished to the tiny island of Elba.
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(For a good example of what can be done, check out the City of Topeka, Kansas, where former Plainfield City Administrator Norton Bonaparte is now City Manager.)
Archive 2007-07-01 Dan 2007
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(For a good example of what can be done, check out the City of Topeka, Kansas, where former Plainfield City Administrator Norton Bonaparte is now City Manager.)
Getting Plainfield records online ought to be a priority Dan 2007
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Napoleon Bonaparte is often quoted as saying you must never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I called Bonaparte, my head man, whom I trust fully.
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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When I got back I called Bonaparte and had him take off the board and put some strong wide pieces of leather across and then tack a sheepskin on top, and I will try it to-morrow.
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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I called Bonaparte at once and used what was left of the culture
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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