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Napeone Biography

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Napoléone was born during the Feast of the Assumption on a couch in the living room of his parent's gorgeous house on August 15th, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. Napoleon was the second of eight surviving children. Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and Letizia Romalino Buonaparte were his parents. Letizia was able to attend Mass often and named Napoléone after an Egyptian religious figure. His father was a member of a noble Italian family,and he remained on good terms with the French when they took over control of Corsica. Although his parents were members of the minor Corsican nobility, the family was not wealthy. As a child, he attended school in mainland France, where he had learned the French language. At age ten, he was allowed to enter …show more content…

In 1785, at the age of 16, Napoleon had graduated from the Ecole Militaire and he had became a Second Lieutenant in the Army for artillery, ambitious and confident. Napoléone was a very small, fiery, hot tempered youth. Though he was small, he often beat his brother when they were fighting, even though Giuseppe was more than a year older than he was. He retained this fiery temper throughout his life. Since Napoleon was so short, he earned himself the nickname of the "Little Corporal." The teasing didn't effect Napoleon too much because he had received an excellent education. When his father died, Napoleon was basically the man of the house. In March 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte became a very liked ruler in France. Napoleon had executed an intense campaign of maneuver against the Austrian and Sardinian forces in Italy and in the resultant treaty of Campo Formio forced Austria to cede the Austrian Netherland. From 1803 to 1815, France was engaged in the Napoleonic Wars, which is a series of major problems with …show more content…

When he arrived in Paris, he was welcomed by cheering crowds. Then the Hundreds Days Campaign and The Battle Of Waterloo had proceeded to happen (in which they lost, actually they were CRUSHED by the British). Then Napoleon was forced yet again to banishment. On June 22, 1815, Napoleon was once again forced to resign In October 1815, Napoleon was banished to the remote, British ruled island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. He died there on May 5, 1821, at age 51, most likely from a stomach cancer. (During his time in power, Napoleon often posed for paintings with his hand in his vest, leading to some speculation after his death that he had been plagued by stomach pain for years.) Napoleon was buried on the island even though he had requested to be laid to rest “on the banks of the Seine, among the French people I have loved so much.” In 1840, Bonaparte's remains were returned to France and entombed in a crypt at Les Invalides in Paris, where other French military leaders are

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