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Napoleon Bonaparte: French Revolution
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Napoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleon Buonaparte on August 15, 1769, in the Corsican city of Ajaccio. He was the fourth of eleven children of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Romolino. His father, a member of a noble Italian family, remained on good terms with the French when they took over control of Corsica.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was the French precursor to Tom Cruise: a crazy, megalomaniac midget. When God was handing out courage to the French people, Napoleon jumped to the front of the line, stole it all, and ran off. Sadly for him, he forgot to grab any height, good looks, good sense or a good stomach.
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Born in Corsica in 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte rose through the midst of the chaos of the French Revolution to become Emperor of the French. He is regarded by many as a military genius, by others as an opportunist. Perhaps he was both.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, a French general, First Consul, and emperor of the French, is still one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West. His revolutionary influence over warfare, military organization and training is too widely known to repeat it here.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was born on the island of Corsica, the son of the assessor to the royal tribunal. Granted free military education in France, he studied French at Autun before entering the military schools at Brienne (1779) and Paris (1784). In 1785 he was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery and was garrisoned at Valence. At Auxonne he saw the beginnings of the French Revolution, but more concerned with Corsica than France, he went home on leave to organize a revolution of his own. Eventually given command of the artillery at the siege of Toulon (1793) he was promoted general of the brigade.
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In April 1796 the twenty-six year old Napoleon Bonaparte was named commander of the French Forces fighting the Austrains in Italy. For many officers his appointment was something of a joke : they saw thier new leader as too short, too young, too inexperienced, and even too badly groomed to play the part of “general”. His soldiers, too, were underpaid, underfed, and increasingly disillusioned with the cause they are fighting for, the French revolution. In the first few weeks of the campaign, Napoleon did what he could to make them fight harder, but they were largely resistant to him.
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