Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte was known as one of the greatest military masterminds in the history of mankind. His strategies and tactics in the battlefield won him many wars and battle thorough out the European Continent. These victories and rise in the military power of France made it possible for the rise of a military dictator. Napoleon Bonaparte was also called “the child of revolution.” He, to some extent supported the ideas of the French Revolution and for a democratic state at first, but ended up in creating a military dictatorship in France. His self-esteem to take over Russia led to his defeat and then in his fall as the Emperor of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte was not born French by birth. Infact he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769. This was a small island, which France had annexed only a few months ago. He was the fourth child and second son of Carlo Bonaparte and Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte. They both belong to the noble Italian families. Napoleon’s original nationality was Corsican-Italian. At that time, he despised the French and thought they were oppressors of his native land. His father was a lawyer, and was also an anti-French. At the age of nine, Napoleon’s father sent him to a French military academy at Brienne-le-Chateau, near Troyes. In the school, he was hated by others and was also considered a foreigner. Thus without any friends in school, Napoleon concentrated on his studies. As a result, he excelled in mathematic. In 1784, Napoleon was selected for the ‘Elite Ecole Militaire’ Academy in Paris. There he studied the art of artillery and at graduating, in 1785, Napoleon received a commission as a second lieutenant in the artillery and then he joined the French Army.
In 1789, the French revolution started throughout the country. During the 1790’s, Napoleon spent most of his time in Corsica and serving under the Corsican National Guard. There, he joined a radical political society known as “t...