Gamer.Site Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Secret Service code name - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_code_name

    Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...

  3. Military career of Napoleon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Napoleon

    The military career of Napoleon spanned over 20 years. He led French armies in the French Revolutionary Wars and later, as emperor, in the Napoleonic Wars. Despite his rich war-winning record, Napoleon's military career ended in defeat. Napoleon has since been regarded as a military genius and one of the finest commanders in history.

  4. United States Secret Service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service

    The Secret Service is tasked with safeguarding the payment and financial systems of the United States from a wide range of financial and cyber-based crimes. Financial investigations include counterfeit U.S. currency, bank and financial institution fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, illicit financing operations, and major conspiracies.

  5. Napoleon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon

    Napoleon Bonaparte(born Napoleone di Buonaparte;[1][b]15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal nameNapoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolutionand led a series of successful campaignsacross Europe during the Revolutionary Warsand Napoleonic Warsfrom 1796 to 1815.

  6. Legacy of Napoleon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Napoleon

    Legacy of Napoleon. French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) has a highly polarized legacy—Napoleon is typically loved or hated with few nuances. The large and steadily expanding historiography in French, English, Russian, Spanish and other languages has been summarized and evaluated by numerous scholars.

  7. Voltaire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire

    Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, but also scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. [ 7]

  8. Napoleonic Code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Code

    Napoleonic Code. The Napoleonic Code ( French: Code Napoléon ), officially the Civil Code of the French ( French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil ), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception. [1]

  9. Concordat of 1801 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat_of_1801

    Concordat of 1801. The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between the First French Republic and the Holy See, signed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII on 15 July 1801 in Paris. [1] It remained in effect until 1905, except in Alsace–Lorraine, where it remains in force. It sought national reconciliation between the French ...