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Nepoleon Bonaparte Child Hood Napoleon was born on August 15, 1769 in the Corsican city of Ajaccio. He was the fourth of eleven children of Carlo Bonaparte. His farther died in 1773 when he was four years old. His childhood was spent in Corsica. After one year he was sold to French. Then 1779 his farther arranged him to study in France.

School-Ages Napoleon began his education in boy’s school in Ajaccio. Then at age ten, he was allowed to enter French military school for aristocrats and was sent in 1779 with his older brother Joseph, to the college of Autun in Burgundy, France. Napoleon later transferred to the college of Brienne, another French military school. While at school France, he was made fun of by others students for being small and for speaking Spanish instead of French. His small size earned him the nickname of the “ Little corporal”. Napoleon also received an excellent education.

Young Adulthood By 1785 napoleon was a second lieutenant in French army. In 1792 he took part in a power struggle between forces supporting Pasquale Paoli and fought for Corsican independence between 1725-1807. After Paoli won, he turned against Napoleon and the Bonaparte Family, foreign them to flee back to France. Napoleon then turned his attention t career in the army. The French Revolution (1785-1793) movements to over throws king Louis XVI (1725-1793) and establish a republic had begun upon his return from Corsica in 1793, Napoleon made a name for himself and won a promotion by helping to defeat the British at Toulon and regain a territory to France.

Adulthood

Napoleon met Josephine de Bauhinias (1763-1814) and they married in March 1796. On 1795 in Paris he was appointed command of the army. Napoleon let Josephine in Paris and started his new command of army of Italy and Australia and won the war, which gave the France to control Italy. Then he soon made Egypt under his control in May 1798. After Sweden was captured by Napoleon with Russians help, only England remained to oppose him. Napoleon was unable to invade England because of its superior naval forces. In 1808 British helped Spain to fight against Napoleon and Spain won the battle. Napoleon had his marriage to Josephine dissolved and then in March 1810 he married Naive Rouse. On June 18, 1815 the combined British and Prussian armies defeated Napoleon. He returned to Paris and stepped down for a second time on June 22 Napoleon first planned to attack America, but he surrendered to the British on July 3. He was sent to exile to the island of St.Helena on the Atlantic Ocean. There he spent his remaining years until he died of cancer on May 5, 1821.