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Napoleon Bonaparte Influence

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader, who conquered numerous parts of Europe in the 19th century, and later on became the first emperor of France. The military leader was not born into a rich family, but instead commoners. In Napoleon’s early life, he attended school in France, until he got accepted into a military academy in Paris. The French Revolution, which began in the Bastille Prison in 1789, affected the choices of Napoleon. After the National Assembly allowed Paoli, a “traitor” to the Bonaparte family, back into the native land. The Bonaparte family did not have the right to return to Corsica, and Napoleon was made a Frenchman because of it. When Napoleon finally gained the trust of the French, from demonstrating his

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