Buonaparte
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Saint Augustine de Buonaparte has actually run for president during every cycle since 1996.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2015
Cried Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was there in 1802 that he experimented on the Augronne River with a miniature steamboat, tried without success to interest Josephine and the Great Buonaparte in his invention.
From Time Magazine Archive
An icy eye for the main chance and a fanatic's ambition were the talents Buonaparte brought to post-revolutionary France.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Cossacks spread themselves out like a fan, a movement which is as old as the force itself, and was used with great effect against the troops of Napoleon Buonaparte in 1812.
From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John
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