Here you'll find 20 real example sentences with Napoleon, the meaning and synonyms like emperor or general.
Napoleon in a sentence
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Napoleon meaning
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), a French military commander and political leader.
- A male given name from Italian sometimes given in honor of the French emperor.
- A village in Silesia, Poland.
Example sentences (20)
At the time, Nelson was being hailed as ‘the saviour of Europe’ after halting a succession of victories by Napoleon.
In 1853, Louis Napoleon designed the excellent muzzle-loading bronze smoothbore field gun that was given his name.
Eventually, after the French Revolution and Napoleon’s reinstatement of slavery, Bologne’s work was largely forgotten.
Rather than portray Napoleon’s infatuation as a function of his broader ambition, Scott inverts the historical record.
Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix’s Napoleon received an R-rating and fans excited for the film want to know why.
The name, somewhat ironically, derives from Martello Point, a cylindrical fortress in Napoleon’s native Corsica.
For example, during the invasion of Egypt, Napoleon’s troops are shown to fire cannons at the Pyramids of Giza.
In this fierce battle of ships, moviegoers will be blown away not by Napoleon's leadership, but that of Horatio Nelson.
Back in the 1930s, American author Napoleon Hill suggested creating an imaginary council and consulting them regularly.
Taxi driver Napoleon Osorio keeps a sign in his car to let customers know that he accepts payments in bitcoin.
And throughout history the identification process continued: Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and others.
During the ensuing battle, remembered as 13 Vendémiaire, Napoleon utilized artillery to defeat the rebels.
Napoleon Bonaparte was due a good rendering in the cinema, but this movie fails to live up to his giant (diminutive) stature.
Perhaps the director feared that such a sonic siege would have distracted attention from the kinks and quirks of his Napoleon.
Gallic historians tell us that Napoleon Bonaparte sometimes badmouthed France’s Jews, while also helping them in concrete ways.
On February 3 and 4, you can see veteran British director Ridley Scott’s latest offering Napoleon (15).
Back then, with Napoleon to confront, they wanted to find out how many men there were of fighting age.
In The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ilya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo even get to style Gaby and in the process.
Monday night, Sony touted its partnership with Apple to release Ridley Scott’s historical epic “Napoleon” in theaters in November.
The Trevians had their first losing record (16-17) since Napoleon took over the program in 1997, but it just delayed the inevitable.
Common combinations with napoleon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of napoleon 21×
- napoleon bonaparte 17×
- and napoleon 13×
- napoleon and 10×
- napoleon was 9×
- by napoleon 8×
- in napoleon 8×
- napoleon iii 7×
- after napoleon 6×
- to napoleon 6×
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