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Napoleon helping to defeat counter-revolutionaries in Paris, French Revolution, 1795. Napoleon Bonaparte (on horseback) commanding revolutionary troops in street fighting on 13 Vendemiaire (5 October). Napoleon's decisive action in putting down what was a serious insurrection brought him to national prominence and earned him promotion to the command of the Army of the Interior in 1796.