Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon was born on August 15th, 1769 in Ajaccio (Capital of Corsica) which is an island 70 miles west of Italy. His parents were Carlo Bonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. They got married when Carlo was 18 and Letizia was 14, this was in 1764. Letizia was the one who was always putting food on the table, Carlo was way to lazy. His father was interested in politics.
Napoleon got sent to military school (Brienne Military Academy) in 1778. He hated it; his peers were constantly making fun of him. They mostly made fun of him for being a Corsican; this would make him love his homeland more. Because of the young men constantly making fun of him he would get very angry and his anger would bottle up to the point of explosion, this is how many young men got black eyes.
Young Napoleon was transferred to the Ecole Militare de Paris (Paris Military school). The reason he was transferred is because of his brutality. At the Brienne Military Academy he had created at brutal war game, complete with bloodshed. He would get his “men” in a team and attack other teams with snow and rocks and ice. He would press them into a ball and throw them at the other teams. At this time, his father, Carlo had died from stomach cancer.
Napoleons new school was very rich and luxurious. Each student had it’s own servant. He strongly objected how luxurious the school was. He wrote a letter to the war minister complaining that the school made officers “soft”. He graduated as Second Lieutenant Bonaparte at age sixteen. After he graduated he was sent to an artillery regiment at Valence in southeast France.
He was very excited to get posted for artillery. Napoleon knew that it was his best chance of getting promoted to major or captain. When he got there he learned a different story. He learned that people that are like him (Non-French) were not aloud to get promoted to major or captain. Before he could get to his regiment he had to do three months of basic training. At basic training he learned what soldiers want and how to punish them. This would be useful later in life when he became a very high-ranking officer.
In September 1786 he was aloud to go see his family. When he got off of his boat his family was very impr...

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...time for winter. The winter caused disruption, and the French retreated. As they retreated the Russians followed them and killed many of them.
Many of Napoleon’s officers persuaded him not to invade Russia, but because of Napoleons arrogance, many French men and women lost their lives. Almost all of Napoleons advisors encouraged him that it was an impossible feat. They knew that the weather was severe and that they would need more time to build up supplies. The main point of the invasion of Russia was to show Britain who’s boss. It would have been a lot easier to just invade Britain.
If Napoleon had waited and built up supplies then maybe he could have done better in Russia. He lacked a lot of supplies and knew very little about Russia’s winter capabilities. Also while waiting for supplies to surplus he could have realized a new way to invade Russia. He could have used boats and traveled to lands like present day Iraq or Afghanistan and marched north to Moscow, this would have been a lot easier and he could have conquered land on his was up there.

Bibliography-
http://www.exn.ca/Napoleon

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