Napoléon Bonaparte Napoléon Bonaparte was a military and political leader of France . Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton met the young Napoleon during a visit to Paris on 28 July 1794 , when they became involved in the plot by Napoleon and Paul Barras to overthrow Maximilien Robespierre . ( TV : " The Reign of Terror " ) The First Doctor did not meet Napoleon during these events but he later did so on the Russia n front in 1812 . ( AUDIO : " Mother Russia " ) On that occasion or possibly during another encounter prior to his third incarnation , the Doctor advised " Boney " that " an army marches on its stomach " . ( TV : " Day of the Daleks " ) Like the First Doctor , 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 . " ( AUDIO : " The Panda Invasion " , " Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa " ) Before the Second Doctor ' s regeneration and exile to Earth , the Time Lord s sent him to investigate the activities of the Player s 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 . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Davros 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 military 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 ' 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 . ( AUDIO : " The Curse of Davros " ) At some point in his timeline , possibly during his farewell tour , the Doctor enraged Napoleon so much the dictator threw a bottle of wine at him . The Eleventh Doctor kept this bottle and shared the wine with Amy Pond , Rory Williams and River Song at Lake Silencio , Utah , just prior to his apparent death on 22 April 2011 . ( TV : " The Wedding of River Song " ) His nephew Napoleon III was the Emperor of France during the 1860s . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) Other references . 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 . ( PROSE : " 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 Great Sphinx . This anachronism was corrected centuries later when Napoleon ' s troops shot off the Sphinx ' s nose . ( AUDIO : " 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 . ( AUDIO : " Loups - Garoux " ) While fleeing from Robot Ant s , Bernice Summerfield found herself in Egypt in 1798 , where she met Vivant Denon , leader of an archaeological team sent to that country by Napoleon . ( PROSE : " Set Piece " ) The Eighth Doctor met a girl , Dusha , living in Moscow during Napoleon ' s advance on the city , who he later found was the emotional half of a Magellan who had been divided and exiled from the future to two different time zones . ( PROSE : " Emotional Chemistry " ) The Doctor kept a bust of Napoleon in the TARDIS console room . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks " , " Doctor Who and the Crusaders " , PROSE : " State of Change " , PROSE : " Shadowmind " ) The Celestial Toymaker once claimed to have beaten Napoleon at Risk . ( COMIC : " Endgame " ) During one of his megalomaniacal rantings , the newly awakened Davros misquoted Napoleon and was corrected by the Fourth Doctor . ( TV : " Destiny of the Daleks " ) The Tenth Doctor told Martha Jones that she could forget her Bonapartes , her Boadiceas , and her Blackbeard s when introducing her to Baltazar . ( TV : " The Infinite Quest " ) 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 . ( TV : " The Last Sontaran " )