Napoleon Bonaparte :: History

Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte, who is also known as the little Corsican, was born on August 15,1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. His family had go thither from Italy in the 16th century. His original name was Napoleone. He had 7 brothers and sisters. His original nationality was Corsican-Italian. He also despised the debase. He thought they were oppressors of his ingrained land. His father was a lawyer, and was also anti-French. One reason Napoleon may have been such a great leader and revolutionary because was he was raised in a family of radicals. When Napoleon was nine, his father sent him to Brienne, a French military government school in Paris. While there he was constantly teased by the French students. Because of this Napoleon started having dreams of private glory and triumph. From 1784 to 1785 Napoleon attended the Ecole Militaire in Paris. It was there that he accredited his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. He finished his training and he joined the French army when he was just 16 years old. His father died after that and he had to hand over for his entire family. Napoleon was stationed in Paris in 1792. by and by the French monarchy was overthrown in August of that year, Napoleon started to make a name for himself and bring forth a well known military leader. In 1792 Napoleon was promoted to captain. In 1793 he was chosen to direct the artillery against the siege in Toulon. briefly after that Toulon fell and Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general. Napoleon was made commandant of the French army in Italy. He defeated many Austrian Generals. Soon after this Austria and France made peace. Afterwards Napoleon was relieved of his command. He had been suspected of treason. In 1795 he broke up a disintegration and saved the French government. He had earned back respect and he was once again give command of the French Army in Italy. He came up with a plan that worked very well. He would cut the enemys army in to two parts, then attack one facial expression of them before the other side could help them. This worked very well against the Sardinian troops, he defeated them 5 times in 11 days. After this Napoleon was almost impossible to stop. This was when he began conquering most of Europe. The low gear country he defeated was Austria. He collected lots of notes and sent it back to Paris, this helped the weak economy of France.