Napoleon Bonaparte
was born in Corsica, an island off the coast of Italy. Only three months before he was born the island became french possession. It is interesting to imagine how things might have been different for Napoleon, France, and Europe if Cosica had not been french territory.
Napoleon, who rose from humble origins to become Emporor of France, was sent as a child of five to a school for girls. His mother hoped that Napoleon would become less stubborn and easier to handle. This, however, was not to be the case. Napoleon, who was the second of the eight Bonaparte children, was strong-willed , obsinate, and often disagreeable.
Napoleon's parent then sent him to a Jesuit school where his older brother ...
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poverty to power, and then almost equally swift decline. When he was defeated by the English at WaterLoo in 1815, Napoleon was made prisoner and taken to St. Helena, an isolated island in the south atlantic. WIth him were his jailers from Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and France, four companions to keep him company, a doctor to keep him well, and twelve servants.
At first, Napoleon tried to make the best of things, but in time he became bored and irratated. When he was called general, not emporer, he grew sick at heart. Napoleon tried to work and to dictate his memoirs, but ill health dogged his footsteps. His legs swelled. His energy flagged. He knew death was not far away. He wrote a will in which his last request was that his ashes might rest on the banks of the Seine, "in the midst of the people I so greatly loved." Napoleon died at the age og fifty-two, but twenty year were to pass before his body was returned to France as he ...
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