Napoleon Bonaparte
- the beginnings
- born on the island of corsica on 1769
- at the age of 9, he was sent to military school in france
- graduated from the school at the age of 16
- he quickly became an artillery Lt. for the french army
- he was very keen to studying different strategies while at school and as an artillery Lt. for the french army
- revolution
- when the french revolution began napoleon joined the side french republic
- he hated the idea of a monarchy
- he did a good job of rallying his troops and helping the revolutionist defeat the french loyalist, 1st coalition, and 2nd coalition
- he picked the right side obviously
- moving up in the ranks
- napoleon was an individual who had to work his way up in life:
- artillery Lt.
- captian
- commander
- general
- emperor
- power
- at the age of 26, he became the leader of the enitre french army, this was a result of the power struggles that was occurring in paris france in 1795
- where he fought
- italy
- austria
- netherlands
- malta
- egypt
- syria
- he fought battles to his east and his west. this became his downfall.
- good things he accomplished
- he helped bring down the end of the monarchy (king and queen) and end the french revolution for a win for the 3rd estate. (this allowed his popularity to rise quickly)
- he cleaned and spent a lot of money into paris and made it the paris that france loves to this day
- he also founded the french banking system
- created a fair and legal modern code that appointed people on ability more so than nobility (Napoleonic code)
- this code is still practiced and used to this day in france
- bad things he did
- crowned himself emperor-even though he hated the monarchy. (maybe he hated Louis XVI) he really allosed his popularity to get the best of him at times
- invaded nearly every country in europe and was successful in defeating many of them
- crowned his baby boy the King of rome
- also put many other relatives in charge of different countries
- started many wars that cost millions of lives boy french and other
- when he started losing and the enemies were getting closer, france turned him over to the english
- they exiled him to st. helena and he lived there under guard for 7 years
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