French Invasion and Reign of Joseph Bonaparte
| Image | Personal Coat of Arms |
Name | Regency start | Regency end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lieutenant General of the Realm. | ||||
| Joachim Murat | 4 May 1808 | 20 July de 1808 |
||
| Image | Personal Coat of Arms |
Name | Regency start | Regency end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emperor's Lieutenant General in Spain. | ||||
| Jean de Dieu Soult | 1 July 1813 |
11 December 1813 |
||
Read more about this topic: Regents Of Spain
Famous quotes containing the words french, invasion, reign and/or bonaparte:
“Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one’s equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.”
—Georges, French novelist, critic. L’Abbé C, pt. 2, ch. 17 (1950)
“We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia, and under the provision of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish a respectable expeditionary force if necessary in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in the water. But we missed the white water-lily, which is the queen of river flowers, its reign being over for this season.... Many of this species inhabit our Concord water.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)