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- noun French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
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Examples
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Wellington's victory at Waterloo gave the Little Corporal and his remaining generals the boot.
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Wellington's victory at Waterloo gave the Little Corporal and his remaining generals the boot.
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Wellington's victory at Waterloo gave the Little Corporal and his remaining generals the boot.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Now the man the world knows as emperor, war hero and bogeyman, the ruthlessly ambitious Little Corporal who rose from provincial obscurity in Corsica to become the terror or ruler of half the world, will be revealed in a surprising new guise: Napoleon the failed romantic novelist.
Napoleon as Novelist 2009
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Now the man the world knows as emperor, war hero and bogeyman, the ruthlessly ambitious Little Corporal who rose from provincial obscurity in Corsica to become the terror or ruler of half the world, will be revealed in a surprising new guise: Napoleon the failed romantic novelist.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The exhibit showcases more than 200 items culled from French museums, including uniforms worn by the Little Corporal, paintings by masters like Jacques-Louis David and Antoine-Jean Gros, and a recreation of the council chamber of Chateau Malmaison, home of Napoleon and Josephine.
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France will not be brought together by this blustering, posturing would-be Little Corporal, this dwarf standing on the shoulders of dwarves.
Tony Hendra: An Open Letter To My French Friends: Don't Let Sarkozy Turn France into a Red State! 2008
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The Little Corporal didn't fare much better there than he did at Waterloo or that a latter day Napoleon wannabe is now doing in Iraq.
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The Little Corporal didn't fare much better there than he did at Waterloo or that a latter day Napoleon wannabe is now doing in Iraq.
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"Frappez et frappez fort," as the Little Corporal used to express it; that is, if they are unable to get their grievances adjusted without some such extreme measure -- of which there does not seem to be much likelihood at present, considering the reformatory tendencies of Jacks in office.
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