Napoléon Bonaparte was a military and political leader of France.

Biography Edit

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 First 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)

Before the Second 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 briefly met with Napoleon, posing as a mystic who had foreseen Napoleon's final victory. Despite the Players' efforts, the Doctor sabotaged an attempt to build an early submarine that would have given Napoleon a crucial advantage in the Battle of Trafalgar. During the Battle of Waterloo, the Doctor played a vital role in delivering messages to Nelson's allies by dressing up as Napoleon; although the two men were only superficially similar to each other, the similarity would be enough for the Doctor to fool the average Frenchman who only saw the Emperor at a distance rather than regularly interacting with him. (PDA: World Game)

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 megalomaniacal rantings, the newly awakened Davros misquoted Napoleon, as pointed out by the Fourth Doctor. (DW: Destiny of the Daleks)

Davros later met with Napoleon when he was intending to test his new mind-swap technology, regarding Napoleon as the best military tactician of Earth's history as all other miltary leaders were tainted by racial prejudice or superstition. However, despite Davros providing Napoleon with Dalek weapons and knowledge of the future, he accepted his defeat when the Sixth Doctor revealed Davros's plans to replace Napoleon's mind with that of a Dalek, Napoleon preferring to lose now and leave humanity to fulfil its own destiny rather than allow humanity to fall under Dalek rule. (BFA: The Curse of Davros)

In a history project for school, Clyde Langer and Luke Smith were required to show the battle strategies of 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)

Iris Wildthyme met Napoleon on the Russian front in 1812 and claimed that, in spite of what the history books said, he was "anything but small." (BFIW: The Panda Invasion, BFIW: The Claws of Santa)

At some point in his timeline, possibly during his farewell tour, the Doctor enraged Napoleon to the point that the dictator threw a bottle of wine at him. The Eleventh Doctor kept this bottle and shared the wine with Amy, Rory, and River at Lake Silencio, Utah, just prior to his death. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)

Other Encounters Edit

• While visiting Paris during what was supposed to be Napoleon's reign as Emperor, the First 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)
• During a visit to Egypt in 1400 BC with the Fifth Doctor, Peri convinced sculptors 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 Janeiro in 2080, the Fifth 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 Robot 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 Eighth 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)
• According to some accounts, the Doctor kept a bust of Napoleon in the TARDIS console room. (DWN: Doctor Who and the Daleks, Doctor Who and the Crusaders, MA: State of Change, NA: Shadowmind)

Behind the scenes Edit

• According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information, in an alternate universe where all of history occurred at once, Napoleon was available on social-networking sites, where he was friends with Cleopatra and sent her an asp.