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    Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Corsica and rose through the ranks of the French military during the French Revolution. He graduated from a French military academy and became a lieutenant in the French army. After being promoted to general, he helped suppress a royalist uprising in 1795.

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    Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Corsica and rose through the ranks of the French military during the French Revolution. He graduated from a French military academy and became a lieutenant in the French army. After being promoted to general, he helped suppress a royalist uprising in 1795.

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    Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), also known as Napoleon I, was a French

    military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early
    19th century. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon rapidly rose through
    the ranks of the military during the French Revolution (1789-1799). After
    seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself
    emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist,
    Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European
    nations and expanded his empire. However, after a disastrous French
    invasion of Russia in 1812, Napoleon abdicated the throne two years later
    and was exiled to the island of Elba. In 1815, he briefly returned to power
    in his Hundred Days campaign. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of
    Waterloo, he abdicated once again and was exiled to the remote island of
    Saint Helena, where he died at 51.

    Napoleon’s Education and Early Military Career

    Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on the


    Mediterranean island of Corsica. He was the second of eight surviving
    children born to Carlo Buonaparte (1746-1785), a lawyer, and Letizia
    Romalino Buonaparte (1750-1836). Although his parents were members of
    the minor Corsican nobility, the family was not wealthy. The year before
    Napoleon’s birth, France acquired Corsica from the city-state of Genoa,
    Italy. Napoleon later adopted a French spelling of his last name.

    As a boy, Napoleon attended school in mainland France, where he learned


    the French language, and went on to graduate from a French military
    academy in 1785. He then became a second lieutenant in an artillery
    regiment of the French army. The French Revolution began in 1789, and
    within three years revolutionaries had overthrown the monarchy and
    proclaimed a French republic. During the early years of the revolution,
    Napoleon was largely on leave from the military and home in Corsica,
    where he became affiliated with the Jacobins, a pro-democracy political
    group. In 1793, following a clash with the nationalist Corsican governor,
    Pasquale Paoli (1725-1807), the Bonaparte family fled their native island
    for mainland France, where Napoleon returned to military duty.

    In France, Napoleon became associated with Augustin Robespierre (1763-


    1794), the brother of revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre (1758-
    1794), a Jacobin who was a key force behind the Reign of Terror (1793-
    1794), a period of violence against enemies of the revolution. During this
    time, Napoleon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the army.
    However, after Robespierre fell from power and was guillotined (along with
    Augustin) in July 1794, Napoleon was briefly put under house arrest for his
    ties to the brothers.

    In 1795, Napoleon helped suppress a royalist insurrection against the


    revolutionary government in Paris and was promoted to major general.

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