Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S.
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He orchestrated a coup in November 1799 and became First Consul of the Republic.
In 1798, he led a military expedition to Egypt that served as a springboard to political power.
At age 26, he began his first military campaign against the Austrians and their Italian allies-winning virtually every battle, conquering the Italian Peninsula in a year, and becoming a war hero in France.
The French Directory eventually gave him command of the Army of Italy after he suppressed a revolt against the government from royalist insurgents.
He rapidly rose through the ranks of the military, seizing the new opportunities presented by the Revolution and becoming a general at age 24.
He was serving as an artillery officer in the French army when the French Revolution erupted in 1789.
He was born Napoleone di Buonaparte in Corsica to a relatively modest family of Italian ancestry from the minor nobility.
Napoleon\'s political and cultural legacy has endured as one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in human history.
He is considered one of the greatest commanders in history, and his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide.
He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815.
Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars.
As Napoleon, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days.
Napol on Bonaparte (15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
Abbott, is a classic Napoleon biography and among the most definitive accounts of the life of the great French emperor and military leader.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S
