Napoleon
was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica, and was given
the name e Buonaperte. He was the second of eight children of Carlo and
Letizia Buonaperte, both of the Corsican-Italian gentry. Before e, no
Buonaparte had ever been a professional soldier. His father Carlo, was a lawyer
who had fought for Corsican independence, but after the French occupied the
island in 1768, he served as a prosecutor and a judge and entered the French
aristocracy as a count. Through his father's influence, Napoleone was educated
at the expense of King Louis XVI, at Brienne and the Ecole Militaire, in Paris.
Napoleone graduated in 1785, at the age of 16, and joined the artillery as a
second lieutenant. ...
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French".
It was here too that Napoleon replaced a wounded artillery general, and seized
ground where his guns could drive the British fleet from the harbor, and Toulon
fell. As a result of his accomplishments, Bonapatre was promoted to brigadier
general at the age of 24. In 1795, he saved the revolutionary government by
dispersing an insurgent mob in Paris. Then in 1796 he married Josephine de
Beauharnais, the mother of two children and the widow of an aristocrat
guillotined in the Revolution. Early in his life Napoleon was showing signs of
militaristic geniuses and knowledge for formidable strategy. It was through
the application of his skills, and a revolutionary style of spontaneous
fighting styles than gave Napoleon the opportunities, which he jumped at, making
his the great military leader he is known as today.
Latter in1796, Napoleon became commander of the French army in Italy.
He defeated four Austrian generals in succession, each at impossible odds, ...
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was revised
in 1802 to make Napoleon consul for life and in 1804, it made him emperor.
Each of these changes received overwhelming assent of the electorate. In 1800,
he assured his power by crossing the Alps and defeating the Austrians at
Marengo. He also concluded an agreement with the pope, which contributed to
French domestic tranquillity and ended the quarrel with the Roman Catholic
church that had arisen during the Revolution. In France, the administration
was reorganized, the court system was simplified, and all schools were put
under centralized control. French law was standardized in the Code Napoleon,
(the civil code) and six other codes. They all guaranteed the rights ...
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