Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, at Ajaccio, in Corsica. His parents were Charles Marie Bonaparte and Marie-Letizia Ramolino who also lived in Corsica. Although Corsica was Napoleon’s home most of his schooling was conducted in France. On December 15,

In 1806 Napoleon began to feel very powerful and important, thinking everything would always go in his favour. That year he issued two decrees, the Berlin Decree and then the Milan Decree. He did not realize that both of these decrees were the beginning of his fall from power. In 1808 the Peninsular War broke out when Spain and Portugal rebelled against French rule. British troops joined the fight against France where tens of thousands of French soldiers died. This loss damaged Napoleon’s honour greatly. Napoleon then decided to attack Russia. This war resulted in many casualties but no one won the battle that took place in Moscow. His men where worn out and on his departure out of Moscow many died from illness and starvation. Of the 600,000 men he began his journey with, 550,000 where now dead. When he returned from Moscow he fought and won a battle against Austria, Great Britian, Russia, Prussia and Sweden. In October the two sides fought again. This time Napoleon lost and retreated to France.

1778, at the age of nine, Napoleon left Ajaccio to go and study the French Language at a school in Brienne. Later, at the age of sixteen, Napoleon decided to enter the artillery so that maybe his brains and industry would balance his lack of outward advantages. On October 28, 1785 he joined the La Fere located in Valence. A little over ten years later he decided to get married to Joshephine de Beauharnais from Martinique in the Indies. After many years of marriage, Napoleon realized that his wife was getting older and he had no heirs, so in 1809 he divorced her to look for a younger bride. In 1810 he met and married Archduchess, Marie Louise the eighteen-year-old daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. During their marriage Napoleon and his new wife conceived one child, a boy also named Napoleon.

After years of being in power, Napoleon was growing very restless with simply governing France. He believed he could help the French better if t

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