A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) as Emperor Napoleon 1 of France on 1 June 1815 in Paris, France. An engraving by Samuel Freeman from a painting by Paul Delaroche. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
'Napoleon at Fontainebleau During the First Abdication - April 1814'. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) enjoyed a meteoric rise through the ranks of the French Revolutionary army. In 1799 he led a coup to overthrow the government, the Directory, and became first consul and effective dictator of France. In 1804, he declared himself Emperor, and embarked on a series of military campaigns across Europe, the Napoleonic Wars. Victories such as Austerlitz and Jena led to France establishing its power across much of the continent. In 1812, however, Napoleon embarked on a disastrous invasion of Russia and defeat at Leipzig in 1813 led to his abdication and exile to Elba. He ecaped in 1815, raised another army, but was finally defeated by Wellington at Waterloo, and exiled again to St Helena. From the Musee de l'Armee, Paris. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)
Napoleon Bonaparte at the end of the battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815. Napoleon (1769-1821) French soldier and emperor, fleeing from the battlefield of Waterloo after his defeat by the British under Wellington and the Prussians commanded by Blucher. Waterloo marked the end of the French First Empire. Napoleon was exiled to St Helena, where he died in 1821. A print from Le Patriote Illustre. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and the Grande Armee flee the pursuing Russian army on the retreat from Moscow during the Napoleonic War of the Sixth Coalition on 20th November 1812 in Russia. An etching after the original work by Adolph Northen. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
circa 1800: Corsican born soldier and Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) and his wife Josephine De Beauharnais (1763 - 1814). (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
