Napoleon Bonaparte Research Paper

In this short essay I will try to look over Napoleon’s life, his rise as well as downfall. Let’s start off by saying that Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica on August 15th, 1769, in a noble and pretty wealthy family. As a young boy he got a scholarship in Royal Military School. After graduating he became a lieutenant of artillery. The name Napoleon Bonaparte brings an image of both military conquest and great skill. At the prime of the nineteenth century, he was considered the greatest soldier of his time by most people. One of his first battles was against British forces in Toulon (1973), where his pristine tactics and skills where shown right from the start. However, once the Directory (5-member committee) came to power,

As the year of 1804 drew to an end Napoleon wanted to further more consolidate his power and decided to declare himself as Emperor of France. In December 2nd, 1804, Napoleon became First emperor of France. In 1805, Napoleon wanted to attack Britain, however Russian and Austrians threatened to attack France, if he does so. For everybody's surprise, Napoleon told his “Grande Army” that they will fight in Europe against Russians and Austrians. Napoleon crushed the Russians and Austrians in the well-known battle of Austerlitz. From that point forward, Prussian also threatened to announce war with France. Napoleon attacked Prussia and, in few days, pushed Prussia to the edge of total collapse. Additionally, Napoleonic powers took after the withdrawing Russian warriors all the way to the Russia. This was one bloodiest fight in Europe history. When Russian general said "it was never a war, its butchery". In this manner, because of persistent losing fights, Russians at long last consented to sign peace with Napoleon in Treaty of Tilsit in

He had power over more than 70 million individuals, the Dutch, German, Polish, Italian, and Austrians, were all under his reign. He was most dreaded man in Europe, and nobody could scrutinize his power. In any case, in 1812, Russian broke their treaty and join Britain to go to war together against French. Napoleon attacked Russia with 600,000 warriors, however Russian climate devastated his armed force, just 200,000 thousand returns back to Paris. Seeing the thrashing in Russia, different countries exploited his weakened forces. They consolidated together in the Coalition of Ally powers and attacked French partners, and not long after a couple of wars they entered France. Napoleon battled hard to defend his empire, yet nothing went his direction, even his general began to question him. Not before long, allied army entered Paris, and Napoleon was compelled to renounce his