Napoleons Battles
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Napoleon, Emperor of France
Napeloen is world famous, but why is this? Simply because he had the warfare intelligence no other man in history had. I will now discuss how these battles led to his rise and downfall after a short summary of his life.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15,1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea that had been bought by France from the Italeans not long before he was born. He had 7 brothers and sisters and his original name was Napoleone Buonaparte in Corsican but it became Napoleon Bonaparte in French. Napoleon's was very well know for having a very small height of 5 feet 2 inches. The funny fact about this short man is that he hated the french !
He thought they were oppressors of his native land. His father was a lawyer, and was also anti-French, making this a very ironique story...