Napoléon Bonaparte

Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a military and political leader of France.

Barbara and Ian met the young Napoleon during a visit to Paris in 1794, when they became involved in the plot by Napoleon and Paul Barras to overthrow Robespierre (DW: The Reign of Terror). The Doctor did not meet Napoleon during these events, but he did later, at some point between then and his third incarnation. At that time he advised "Boney" that "an army marches on its stomach. (DW: Day of the Daleks). Soldiers from Napoleon's Russian Campaign were kidnapped by the War Lords (DW: The War Games). The Third Doctor claimed to have been "a close personal friend" of Horatio Nelson, who defeated Napoleon's fleet at Trafalgar (DW: The Sea Devils). During one of his megalomaniac rantings, the newly awakened Davros misquoted Napoleon, as pointed out by the Doctor (DW: Destiny of the Daleks). In a history project for school, Clyde Langer and Luke Smith were required to show the battle stratagies by Wellington and Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, while playing a game of Waterloo on Mr Smith Luke impersonated Napoleon's french accent. (SJA: The Last Sontaran)

Other Encounters

 * While visiting Paris in what was supposed to be Napoleon's reign as Emperor, the Doctor and Dodo found themselves in an alternate timeline in which France was ruled by the Marquis de Sade. (MA: The Man in the Velvet Mask)


 * Before the Doctor's regeneration and exile to Earth, the Time Lords sent him to investigate the activities of the Players in the Napoleonic era, during which time he met several historical figures, including Napoleon, Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. (PDA: World Game)


 * During a visit to Egypt in 1400 BC with the Doctor, Peri convinced sculptures to place the face of Elvis Presley on the Sphinx. This anachronism was corrected centuries later when Napoleon's troops shot off the Sphinx's nose. (BFA: The Eye of the Scorpion)


 * During a visit to Rio de Janiero in 2080, the Doctor and Turlough encountered a woman, Ileana De Santos, who was turned into a werewolf in 1812 as Napoleon's troops marched on her town. (BFA: Loups-Garoux)


 * While fleeing from the Ants, Bernice Summerfield found herself in Egypt in 1798, where she met Vivant Denon, leader of an archaeological team sent to that country by Napoleon. (NA: Set Piece)


 * The Doctor met a girl, Dusha, living in Moscow during Napoleon's advance on the city, whom he later found was the emotional half of a Magellan who had been divided and exiled from the future to two different time zones. (EDA: Emotional Chemistry)