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    Napoleon

    Emperor of the French (r. –, )

    "Napoleon Bonaparte" redirects here. For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation) and Napoleon Bonaparte (disambiguation).

    Battles of Napoleon

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    miles

    Rochefort

    18

    Waterloo

    17

    Elba

    16

    Dizier

    15

    Leipzig

    14

    Berezina

    13

    Borodino

    12

    Wagram

    11

    Somosierra

    10

    Friedland

    9

    Jena

    8

    Austerlitz

    7

    Marengo

    6

    Cairo

    5

    Malta

    4

    Arcole

    3

    Paris

    2

    Toulon

    1

    Rescale the fullscreen map to see Saint Helena.

    Napoleon Bonaparte[b] (born Napoleone Buonaparte;[c] 15 August – 5 May ), later known by his regnal nameNapoleon&#;I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from to He led the French Republic as First Consul from to , then ruled the French Empire as Emperor of the French from to ,

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    The life of Napoleon I: a timeline for 6 years old +

    &#; Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte

    On 15 August , Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, in Corsica, into a aristocratic family. He parents, Charles and Letizia already had one son, called Joseph. There would eventually be five boys (Joseph, Napoleon, Lucien, Louis and Jerome) and three girls (Elisa, Caroline and Pauline) in the family. Napoleon was mischievous and disruptive and was often told-off, but even from an early age, he enjoyed learning.

    Did you know&#; that Corsica became part of France just before Napoleon was born? It had previously been controlled by the Genoan Republic, in Italy. Napoleon&#;s first words were Italian! Today, you can still visit the house where Napoleon was born, which has become a museum.

    &#; A future general

    When he was ten years-old, Napoleon left Corsica to go to military school in Brienne (near Auxerre). This was a school reserved for boys from aristocratic families. Napoleon read a

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    A Short History of Napoleon, the Ambitious, Charismatic kejsare of France

    It didn't take long for Napoleon to begin seeing himself as the French incarnation of Julius namn på en berömd romersk ledare eller en klassisk sallad or Alexander the Great. He could have made a play for kejsare in , but felt the moment wasn't ganska right in Paris. So he rallied his armies and set off for Egypt, where he hoped to cut off British trade with India.

    Napoleon scholar Jean Tulard called the Egyptian campaign, "probably the craziest expedition in the history of France." Napoleon marched 35, troops across the desert from the port city of Alexandria toward Cairo. At the Battle of the Pyramids, he faced a vägg of 10, fearless Mameluke fighters on horseback.

    "Soldiers," Napoleon shouted to his troops, "from the height of these pyramids, 40 centuries look down upon you."

    The French, following Napoleon's ingenious battlefield strategies, crushed the saber-wielding Mamelukes and took Cairo. But while Napoleon was daydream