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23583; 21.01306 Warsaw Insurgents Square (Polish: Plac Powstańców Warszawy), still popularly known by its former name Napoleon Square (Polish: Plac Napoleona)...

The Napoleon Bonaparte Monument was erected to honor the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the 190th anniversary of his death. Napoleon established...

Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. The...

Battles of Napoleon 1000km 620miles Rochefort 18 Waterloo 17 Elba 16 Dizier 15 Leipzig 14 Berezina 13 Borodino 12 Wagram 11 Somosierra 10 Friedland 9 Jena...

The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (Polish: powstanie sierpniowe)...

well as the French Empire, Napoleon controlled the Swiss Confederation, the Confederation of the Rhine, the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Italy. Territories...

1935 Warsaw 1937 The National Museum in Warsaw 1938 Piłsudski Square in Warsaw 1939 Cavalry of Poland in Warsaw, August 1939 Warsaw 1939 Warsaw 1939 (Agfacolor)...

territories, Napoleon had created French client states, which were formalized and recognized at Tilsit: the Kingdom of Westphalia, the Duchy of Warsaw and the...

later one of Napoleon Bonaparte's marshals. Under his ownership the palace became a center of Warsaw's high class social scene. When Warsaw became part...

River, marking the entry from the Duchy of Warsaw into Russia. Employing extensive forced marches, Napoleon rapidly advanced his army of nearly half a...

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, has become a worldwide cultural icon generally associated with tactical brilliance, ambition, and political power. His...

As a masterpiece it was confiscated on Napoleon's order and transported to Paris. It was retrieved by Warsaw authorities in 1820s after the Congress...

300miles Pultusk 15 Gorodeczno 14 Drohiczyn 13 Tauroggen 12 Riga 11 Tilsit 10 Warsaw 9 Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3...

Napoleon created a new kingdom of 1,100 square miles called Westphalia and appointed his young brother Jérôme as its new monarch, and a 40,000 square...

Warsaw, a Polish client state, ruled by his new ally the king of Saxony. At the end of the war, there was peace on Continental Europe with Napoleon as...

Polish head of state and president alongside the Belweder Palace, located in Warsaw, Poland. Originally constructed in 1643 as an aristocratic mansion, it was...

Museum in Warsaw. On 29 August 1944, another dud shell from mortar "Ziu" was found in the basement of Prudential building located at Napoleon Square 9 (Plac...

Second Empire style, also known as the Napoleon III style, is a highly eclectic style of architecture and decorative arts originating in the Second French...

Napoleon had expressed surprise during an 1807 visit to Toruń that there was no monument to Copernicus in the town. The fall of the Duchy of Warsaw (which...

Museum. The palace is contiguous with Warsaw's Royal Castle, and down a slope from Castle Square and Warsaw's Old Town. Beneath the palace, a 17th-century...