Multiple choice general knowledge history

Napoleon came back into favor after he was brought in for military experience and used to successfully:

  1. Suppress counter revolutionary forces

  2. Mediate some border disputes

  3. Plan an invasion into Spain

  4. Design a new rifle
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Explanation

Napoleon's artillery expertise was used to suppress a royalist insurrection in Paris on 5 October 1795, an event famously called the 'whiff of grapeshot.' This successful military action restored his political standing and accelerated his rapid rise to power.

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