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"Adieu, my children! Would that I could press you all to my heart. Let me at least embrace your standard!"
🇫🇷 #OnThisDay in #History 6 April 1814, #Napoleon unconditionally abdicated at Fontainebleu. He was exiled to the island of Elba. The Bourbon dynasty was restored. Until...
Mongez signed this canvas in tribute to her teacher: ‘Fme Mongez / Elève de Mr David.’”
Yusopov was not alone—in 1814, the Italian collector Gian Battista Sommariva purchased Mongez’s Mars and Venus, which she replicated decades later (@Museesdangers). /
@Caos0189 @neblaruz @albertopetro2 @BryanMatthews23 @migliaccio31 @_die_Uta_ @mi_oro13 @MarisaPetrina @Petra71301259 @renatoantares50 @ManuelaDora @doritadia @cmont4560 @anne_camozzi @BrindusaB1 @culture_more @cecchi_giovanna @DavLucia @dianadep1 @agustin_gut @djolavarrieta @ValerioLivia @paoloigna1 @guagnano_paolo @Barbaga3Gaetano @AlessandraCicc6 @ceconomou56 @CristianeGLima @EnricoCastrovil @FriendArt_ @ANNAMAMARIABIA1 @Sensibilia8 Francisco de Goya, 1814, The Second of May 1808, Museo del Prado, Madrid -El_dos_de_mayo_de_1808_en Madrid
Elba and Napoleon’s 100 days
The defeated Napoleon wrote one last letter to Josephine, in which he said, "Never forget him who has never forgotten you and will never forget you." On April 20, 1814, the dethroned Emperor left France,,,
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On this day in 1814, a legion of diplomats descend onto Vienna to map out post-Napoleonic Europe and (hopefully) prevent future wars. Their new world order will be temporarily upended six months later after Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
Monument for the Wars of Liberation by Schinkel in #Berlin
"Entwurf für einen öffentlichen Brunnen als Denkmal der Ereignisse in den Jahren 1813, 1814, 1815"
Kupferradierung von Ferdinand Berger nach Entwurf und Zeichnung von Karl Friedrich Schinkel
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. Becoming First Consul of France in 1799, then Emperor in 1804 until 1814, then again in 1815. He was also responsible for the Napoleonic Code
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Drawn for AO3 user Jen_814, as part of the 2022 Jukebox Exchange. Inspired by the song Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine.
On Sept 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem which became “The Star-Spangled Banner”. The “bombs bursting in air” were fired by HMS Terror and her sister ships. Read all about Terror’s contribution to the American national anthem on June 29th! @SeaforthPub @penswordbooks
Fought #OnThisDay in the early hours of 14 April 1814, the Sortie from Bayonne.
General Thouvenot, Governor of Bayonne, commanded the French troops carried out the attack.
French deserters gave warnings, but the allies were unprepared.
Eventually the sortie was repelled.
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Marie Louise had a passion for #violets. She had them embroidered on her wedding dress, when she married Napoleon #OnThisDay 1810.
When she became Duchess of Parma in 1814, the friars of the Annunciata were able to extract violets perfume and produced it only for her.
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As the British march on their way to Washington, D.C. in August 1814, they see a glint in the wood.
Two American militiamen who claimed they were squirrel hunting.
They had no excuse when the British asked why they were hunting squirrels with bayonets!
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"The dream of the fisherman's wife". 1814, by Katsushika Hokusai.
On this day in 1814, 1,600 British and Indian soldiers clashed with 600 Goorkhas at the battle of Kalunga. Read the full story of the famous battle of the Anglo-Nepal war below 👇https://t.co/Ke5cNGgRKQ #gurkha #Goorkha #OTD #history #militaryhistory #onthisday #kukri