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Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte, c1804. Artist: Francois Pascal Simon Gerard

Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte, c1804. Napoleon (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. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

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Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, c1820. Artist: Delpech

Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, c1820. Jerome (1784-1860) was King of Westphalia from 1807-1813. He served in Napoleon's Russian campaign and at the Battle of Waterloo. After the fall of his brother he lived in Florence, but returned as a Marshal of France and President of the Senate under the rule of his nephew, Napoleon III

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Monument to Admiral Maitland, 1845. Creator: Unknown

Monument to Admiral Maitland, 1845. Sculpture ...in alto relievo, by Mr. T. Campbell, of Great Marlborough-street, London, of British naval officer, Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland. A beautiful white marble monument has just been placed in the chapel of the Dockyard at Portsmouth, to the memory of Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland...With other circumstances which have attached fame and honour to the name of the gallant deceased is associated one which must hand down his name to posterity, as connected with the most remarkable events of modem times; we allude to the fact of Napoleon having surrendered to him, on board the Bellerophon, 78, after the disastrous affair of Waterloo, when off Rochfort, on the 15th of July, 1815...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII

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