pre-Napoleonic
- a word derived from Napoleonic.
Example Sentences
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The creole elites’ resentment over the reinstatement of pre-Napoleonic policy allowed the search for independence to spark.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
A hapless housebreaker and a credulous co-conspirator, his criminal misadventures were equaled only by his skill escaping from the dungeons and bagnes that passed for a penal system in the pre-Napoleonic era.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2011
Those we had in the school for the use of the big boys—dreadful old blunderbusses of the pre-Napoleonic era—were of the same pattern.
From The Making of an American by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
A century has passed since Carnot and Jones wrote, and the ideas in which they had been educated were those of the pre-Napoleonic era.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
In essentials, though not in all respects, there was a return to the situation of pre-Napoleonic times.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
