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Sentences starting with napoleon

Napoleon sat down, toying with his Sevres coffee cup, and motioned Balashev to a chair beside him. [2]
Napoleon told him to ride by his side and began questioning him. [2]
Napoleon also meant to go to war again. [9]
Napoleon rode up the high ground at Semenovsk, and through the smoke saw ranks of men in uniforms of a color unfamiliar to him. [2]
Napoleon sat at the foot of the knoll, drinking punch, when Murat's adjutant galloped up with an assurance that the Russians would be routed if His Majesty would let him have another division. [2]
Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there. [2]
Napoleon has augmented the commercial prosperity of France in ten years to such a degree that figures can hardly compute it. [5]
Napoleon was in the air--a curious sequence to the song that was sung on the night of Valmond's arrival, when a phrase was put in the mouths of the parish, which gave birth to a personal reality. [11]
Napoleon was in that well-known after-dinner mood which, more than any reasoned cause, makes a man contented with himself and disposed to consider everyone his friend. [2]
Napoleon gave orders that the troops should form up on the farther side and wait. [2]

Sentences ending with napoleon

In Russia there was an Emperor, Alexander, who decided to restore order in Europe and therefore fought against Napoleon. [2]
There is a war now against Napoleon. [2]
Marquette's and Joliet's voyage of discovery ended at the same spot--the site of the future town of Napoleon. [5]
Rumors of these things which I have told above had filled Kentucky from time to time, and in November of 1803 there came across the mountains the news that the Senate of the United States had ratified the treaty between our ministers and Napoleon. [9]
The news that the Russians were attacking the left flank of the French army aroused that horror in Napoleon. [2]
The garcon pocketed the franc I gave him with the air of having expected a napoleon. [6]
When dispatching Balashev, the Emperor repeated to him the words that he would not make peace so long as a single armed enemy remained on Russian soil and told him to transmit those words to Napoleon. [2]
It was rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander a meeting with Napoleon. [2]
She knew also that he had been courteous enough to send a man each day to inquire after Valmond, but that was not to the point; he was torturing her, he had prophesied the downfall of her "spurious Napoleon. [11]
Then, with a sudden flush, he spoke of Napoleon. [11]

Short sentences using napoleon

Lithograph, Napoleon Crossing the Alps. [5]
He is alive," said Napoleon. [2]
Live the Code Napoleon! [11]
That Napoleon has left Moscow? [2]
Napoleon looked at him. [2]
I loved the Great Napoleon. [11]
Lieutenant Commanding Napoleon B. Harrison. [7]
Are you really a Napoleon? [11]
Napoleon nodded assent. [2]
Napoleon le Grand! [2]

Sentences containing napoleon two or more times

That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
He knew very well that this was Napoleon, but Napoleon's presence could no more intimidate him than Rostov's, or a sergeant major's with the rods, would have done, for he had nothing that either the sergeant major or Napoleon could deprive him of. [2]
Medallion began with the parish, passed to the law, from the law to Napoleon, from Napoleon to France, and from France to the world, drawing out from the Avocat something of his old vivacity and fire. [11]
The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary. [2]
Disregarding Napoleon they rushed after the plunder and Napoleon managed to escape. [2]
He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses. [2]
Napoleon or no Napoleon, the end of this thing is ruin. [11]
He must remain in Moscow, concealing his name, and must meet Napoleon and kill him, and either perish or put an end to the misery of all Europe--which it seemed to him was solely due to Napoleon. [2]
Napoleon from St. Helena calls to you, Napoleon in Pontiac calls to you! [11]

More example sentences with the word napoleon in them

Sellers about Napoleon, you've always told me so," answered Laura, with a look intended to contradict her words. [5]
I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk. [2]
The bully soldiers would come with us as they went with the Great Napoleon at Grenoble. [11]
Rostov, in common with the whole army from which he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French--who from being foes had suddenly become friends--that had taken place at headquarters and in Boris. [2]
Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there. [2]
Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal. [2]
I entered Paris with Napoleon after Elba. [5]
If not, then why was Napoleon I? [2]
Balashev told him why he considered Napoleon to be the originator of the war. [2]
The adjutant asked whether Napoleon wished the troops to cross it? [2]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring. [2]
Then all these Westphalians and Hessians whom Napoleon is leading would not follow him into Russia, and we should not go to fight in Austria and Prussia without knowing why. [2]
When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another. [2]
Rid of Napoleon, we had another despot in Metternich. [9]
On the twenty-fourth, we are told, Napoleon attacked this advanced post and took it, and, on the twenty-sixth, attacked the whole Russian army, which was in position on the field of Borodino. [2]
But as food was too precious to be given to foreigners, who were for the most part enemies, Napoleon preferred to supply them with money with which to purchase food from outside, and had paper rubles distributed to them. [2]
And the book was the "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. [9]
He knew it was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. [2]
And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
And while he was doing M. de Beausset the honor of breakfasting with him, they heard, as Napoleon had anticipated, the rapturous cries of the officers and men of the Old Guard who had run up to see the portrait. [2]
Their first meeting was at Grady's quick-lunch counter in Faber Street, which they both frequented at one time, and the fact that each had ordered a ham sandwich, a cup of coffee, and a confection--new to Grady's--known as a Napoleon had led to conversation. [9]
This visit was vividly recalled by Irving in a letter to his sister, Mrs. Storrow, who was in Paris in 1853, and had just been presented at court: "Louis Napoleon and Eugenie Montijo, Emperor and Empress of France! [4]
Theodore Stanton was visiting him at the time, and Clemens urged him, on his return to France, to make an excursion to the Rhone and locate the Lost Napoleon, as he now called it. [5]
France: Emerson's first visit, 62, 63; philosophers, 76; Revolution, 80; tired of Napoleon, 207, 208; realism, 326; wrath, 385, 386. [6]
France stole that vast country on that spot, the future Napoleon; and by and by Napoleon himself was to give the country back again!--make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. [5]
Monsieur Garon and Valmond talked on, eager, responsive, Valmond lost in the discussion of Napoleon, Garon in the man before him. [11]
Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him, though they were meaningless. [2]
The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. [2]
Kutuzov did not understand what Europe, the balance of power, or Napoleon meant. [2]
The fog lay unbroken like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. [2]
The invaders flee, turn back, flee again, and all the chances are now not for Napoleon but always against him. [2]
When De Soto took his fleeting glimpse of the river, away back in the dim early days, he took it from that same spot--the site of the future town of Napoleon, Arkansas. [5]
But Napoleon nodded to the traveler, and de Beausset had to mount. [2]
It is impossible to suppose that Rostopchin had scared them by his accounts of horrors Napoleon had committed in conquered countries. [2]
Ah, what joy to serve a Napoleon once again! [11]
Balashev knew how to reply to each of Napoleon's remarks, and would have done so; he continually made the gesture of a man wishing to say something, but Napoleon always interrupted him. [2]
It naturally seemed to Napoleon that the war was caused by England's intrigues (as in fact he said on the island of St. Helena). [2]
It only seemed to Napoleon that it all took place by his will. [2]
He was said to have served under Napoleon as a sapper, and afterwards settled in our neighbourhood, and found occupation in Keilhau. [10]
But George meant to go to war again right away, which was inconvenient and inconsiderate, for Napoleon had not finished his game of chess. [9]
Pfuel alone seemed to consider Napoleon a barbarian like everyone else who opposed his theory. [2]
And--would you like to come over and stay awhile with Napoleon at Wilhelmsh:ohe? [5]
Everything was assumed to be possible for Napoleon, they expected him from every side, and invoked his terrible name to shatter each other's proposals. [2]
At that very time, at ten in the morning of the second of September, Napoleon was standing among his troops on the Poklonny Hill looking at the panorama spread out before him. [2]
We wandered, also, through the Grand Trianon and the Petit Trianon, those monuments of royal prodigality, and with histories so mournful--filled, as it is, with souvenirs of Napoleon the First, and three dead kings and as many queens. [5]
There was only this to do: to possess herself of those wonderful herbs which had been given her Napoleon in his hour of peril. [11]
Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain personal aims, to further the accomplishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected--neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fighting. [2]
Napoleon, without giving them a glance, turned to Balashev: "Assure the Emperor Alexander from me," said he, taking his hat, "that I am as devoted to him as before: I know him thoroughly and very highly esteem his lofty qualities. [2]
The militia and the town guard were in ominous force, and although his respect for the island military was not devout, a bullet from the musket of a fool might be as effective as one from Bonapend's-- as Napoleon Bonaparte was disdainfully called in Jersey. [11]
When we visit the tomb of Napoleon at the Invalides, no side-lights interfere with the view before us in the field of mental vision. [6]
The view of the strange city with its peculiar architecture, such as he had never seen before, filled Napoleon with the rather envious and uneasy curiosity men feel when they see an alien form of life that has no knowledge of them. [2]
The pursuit of the Russian army, about which Napoleon was so concerned, produced an unheard-of result. [2]
Below the village the road crossed the river by a bridge and, winding down and up, rose higher and higher to the village of Valuevo visible about four miles away, where Napoleon was then stationed. [2]
In the turnpikes, the railways, the depots, and the new boulevards of uniform houses in Florence and other cities here, I see the genius of Louis Napoleon, or rather, I see the works of that statesman imitated. [5]
His glance caught the picture of the Great Napoleon, and his eyes met hers again with new resolution. [11]
Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold. [2]
Drawn on by the movement of his troops Napoleon rode with them as far as the Dorogomilov gate, but there again stopped and, dismounting from his horse, paced for a long time by the Kammer-Kollezski rampart, awaiting the deputation. [2]
He went as the lieutenant Napoleon, walking about with his hands behind his back and his brows thoughtfully contracted. [9]
There is not the least danger of Napoleon threatening them if they take an American sovereign; in fact, we have no doubt he would be pleased to support such a candidature. [5]
He resembled Napoleon--not the later Napoleon, but the Bonaparte, lean, shy, laconic, who fought at Marengo; and this had startled the Cure in his pulpit, and the rest of the little coterie. [11]
The fortifying of the Kremlin, for which la Mosquee (as Napoleon termed the church of Basil the Beatified) was to have been razed to the ground, proved quite useless. [2]
Napoleon, standing on the knoll, looked through a field glass, and in its small circlet saw smoke and men, sometimes his own and sometimes Russians, but when he looked again with the naked eye, he could not tell where what he had seen was. [2]
It was after the humiliation and spoliation of the kingdom by Napoleon that the monarch asked the philosopher what could be done to regain the lost position of the nation. [3]
And they defeated the genius Napoleon and, suddenly recognizing him as a brigand, sent him to the island of St. Helena. [2]
The mention in the foregoing letter of the Napoleon effigy is the beginning of what proved to be a rather interesting episode. [5]
The downfall of the fiend Napoleon and the Vaterland united--these two his scholars must have written in their hearts. [9]
He referred to the fact that the Emperor Napoleon had resented the demand that he should withdraw his troops from Prussia, especially when that demand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended. [2]
Finding himself in the company of Napoleon, whose identity he had easily and surely recognized, Lavrushka was not in the least abashed but merely did his utmost to gain his new master's favor. [2]
Despite news of the capture of the fleches, Napoleon saw that this was not the same, not at all the same, as what had happened in his former battles. [2]
So this was the beginning of the Napoleon "legend"; and by-and-by this coarse head will be idealized into the Roman Emperor type, in which I myself might have believed but for the revelations of the night of strange adventure. [4]
Prince Andrew understood that this was said of him and that it was Napoleon who said it. [2]
The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Forminsk that day were the vanguard of the whole army, that Napoleon was there and the whole army had left Moscow four days previously. [2]
It was said that the Emperor was leaving the army because it was in danger, it was said that Smolensk had surrendered, that Napoleon had an army of a million and only a miracle could save Russia. [2]
Before vespers on that Sunday night, it was common talk that he was a true son of the Great Napoleon, born at St. Helena. [11]
Napoleon was in that state of irritability in which a man has to talk, talk, and talk, merely to convince himself that he is in the right. [2]
It was said that Rostopchin had expelled all Frenchmen and even all foreigners from Moscow, and that there had been some spies and agents of Napoleon among them; but this was told chiefly to introduce Rostopchin's witty remark on that occasion. [2]
Some historians say that Napoleon need only have used his Old Guards, who were intact, and the battle would have been won. [2]
The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de-camp at Bennigsen's country house. [2]
And he knew that Napoleon could not play chess in the wind. [9]
All the traits that made the great Napoleon worshiped, hated, and feared existed in the little Bonaparte, as perfectly as the pea-pod in the flower. [4]
He was convinced that he alone could maintain command of the army in these difficult circumstances, and that in all the world he alone could encounter the invincible Napoleon without fear, and he was horrified at the thought of the order he had to issue. [2]
Still less did that genius, Napoleon, know it, for no one issued any orders to him. [2]
During the speech that followed, Balashev, who more than once lowered his eyes, involuntarily noticed the quivering of Napoleon's left leg which increased the more Napoleon raised his voice. [2]
The officers said that either Napoleon or Murat was there, and they all gazed eagerly at this little group of horsemen. [2]
The news of that battle of Tarutino, unexpectedly received by Napoleon at a review, evoked in him a desire to punish the Russians (Thiers says), and he issued the order for departure which the whole army was demanding. [2]
And Napoleon, shedding tears before his Old Guards, renounced the throne and went into exile. [2]
At dinner the talk turned on the latest political news: Napoleon's seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg's territory, and the Russian Note, hostile to Napoleon, which had been sent to all the European courts. [2]
Louis Napoleon has taken care of all that. [5]
But here they take their right place, and Caesar and Napoleon and Alexander have to take a back seat. [5]
The allies could take 1,400 of the men, and give Napoleon 1,400 and then whip him. [5]
Balashev rode on, supposing from Murat's words that he would very soon be brought before Napoleon himself. [2]
I should have supposed that the last object upon which Parisians would, in their wildest frenzy, have laid violent hands would have been the column with the figure of Napoleon at its summit. [6]
With regard to supplies for the army, Napoleon decreed that all the troops in turn should enter Moscow a la maraude * to obtain provisions for themselves, so that the army might have its future provided for. [2]
Napoleon with his suite rode up to the Shevardino Redoubt where he dismounted. [2]
Up the dusty street wandered fitfully the refrain: "To a gentleman of the king, Vive Napoleon! [11]
Napoleon was silent, still looking derisively at him and evidently not listening to him. [2]
Ney and Berthier, standing near Napoleon, exchanged looks and smiled contemptuously at this general's senseless offer. [2]
After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond Dorogobuzh at Vyazma, and then at Tsarevo-Zaymishche, but it happened that owing to a conjunction of innumerable circumstances the Russians could not give battle till they reached Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow. [2]
He is the son of Napoleon and a certain princess, born after Napoleon's fall, not long before his death. [11]

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