But when it comes to adapting a signature, one man stands alone, Napoleon Bonaparte.
After fighting the Spanish for control, cash-strapped Napoleon Bonaparte begrudgingly sold it to Thomas Jefferson in 1803.
The Institute of Egypt was established in 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte in order to advance scientific research.
Young Napoleon Bonaparte saw it coming and banned the import of English textiles.
In 1815, deposed French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte landed on the Island of St.
As historical figures such as France's Napoleon Bonaparte have shown, interest in fashion goes hand-in-hand with a hunger for power -- often with mixed results.
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The next major event is the Congress of Vienna in 1814, when the powers that defeated Napoleon Bonaparte put their own stamp on the system.
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Jim DeMint of South Carolina predicted that health care could be the president's "Waterloo" a reference to the battle where French leader Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated.
Today we live in a bureaucratic, military police state, a step short of Fascism known as Rule by Decree, which is a form of Bonapartism, as in Napoleon Bonaparte.
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The Reine de Naples collection pay tribute to the Queen of Naples, Caroline Murat, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom the first wristwatch was invented by Breguet in 1812.
And the only near-contemporary who stood within or near this pantheon was Napoleon Bonaparte, who loomed so large for Nietzsche because he alone came anywhere close to unifying Europe politically.
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In 1804, the French Senate proclaimed Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
Members of British royalty, Napoleon Bonaparte, King Louis Philippe of France, Frederick II of Prussia and other dignitaries all drank wines from Constantia and served it to special guests in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
The elegant 81-room Shangri-La Hotel opened in 2010 among the embassies and mansions in the Trocadero district, after a four-year revamp of a building that was once the residence of Roland Bonaparte, grandnephew of Napoleon.
Princess Mathilde Bonaparte , the daughter of Napoleon 's brother Jerome, was the first.
After hastily abdicating the Spanish throne in 1814, Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte absconded with the pearl to the United States, where it and he bided their time, lying low in Philadelphia.
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