During their marriage Napoleon and his new wife conceived one child, a boy also named Napoleon.
Napoleon was a man known for his great powers and successes as a leader. One of the many successful things Napoleon did early in his life was develop a highly successful military strategy. His tragedy consisted of starting a battle with an enemy while holding his forces back. He would then look for the enemies weakest points and throw all his strength against that point. This newly developed strategy helped him to win many of his attacks such as his attack on and defeat in Italy against Austria and his battle and defeat in Egypt against the Turks.
After Napoleon's defeat in Egypt he returned to France where he seized control of the French government in November 1799. Historian Alfred Cobban claims that "Napoleon came to power as a dictator from the right, not of course, as a leader of the old reactionary party, but as a dictator supported by the propertied classes, the financiers and commercial men, the upper bourgeoisie, and speculators, who had made large fortune out of the revolution and had bought up church or crown land- Although this historian sees Napoleon in a negative light, at this point of time in France, the lower class still outnumbered the middle class and upper class and no one in the lower class was against him therefore he was supported by the French populace as a whole. After all the years of turmoil the French people had gone through, Napoleon was now looking for peace for his country. He led his army on a famous march where he defeated the Austrians. Along with peace in Europe Napoleon did other things to help the French people. One of the biggest and most well known is the revision of many French laws into codes. One of the most famous codes, Code Napoleon, still forms the basis of the federal civil law today.
After years of being in power, Napoleon was growing very restless with simply governing France.