Napoleon
Bonaparte
By Jason figuereo/ Brayam Pamno
Early life
• Napoleon Bonaparte was born August 15, 1769.
• He was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica
• Napoleon was the second of eight surviving children.
• As a boy napoleon attended school in mainland France
where he learned the language.
• Napoleon spent a year studying at the Ecole Militaire in
Paris, graduating as a Second Lieutenant of artillery.
Increase in power
• Napoleon fought well for the Republic, helping to defeat the
British at Toulon. For his services there, he was made a
Brigadier General.
• Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais and gained power
over the French army in Italy, after defeating the Austrians in
1797.
• Napoleon's campaign in Egypt did not go as planned, when he
heard that the Directory was losing power, he left his army and
returned to Paris to take advantage of the situation.
• He became the first of three consuls in the new government
proclaimed in 1799.
After rise of power
• He ended the conflict between France
and the Church by instituting the
Concordat of 1801.
• In order to be able to concentrate
solely on his European affairs, he
sold France's Louisiana territory to
the U.S. in 1803.
• Napoleon crowned himself Emperor
in a lavish coronation ceremony.
• 1. Second Lieutenant of
artillery
• 2. Brigadier General.
• 3. commander of the
French army.
• 4. Council member
• 5. Emperor
Downfall
• Napoleon's Grand Army entered Russia in
order to punish Alexander, but the ravages of
the deadly Russian winter decimated his army.
• He rushed back to Paris and raised a new
army, only to be defeated by a coalition of
European forces at Leipzig in 1814.
• He was then exiled to the isle of Elba, where he
plotted his return.
• Napoleon escaped from Elba, sneaked into
France, and raised a new army.
• He was defeated and once again exiled to
distant Saint Helena in the South Atlantic,
where he died in 1821.
Reasons to why he is a hero
• His military strength helped reestablish a collapsed economy.
• He rebuild France’s army making them less vulnerable to other surrounding nations.
citations
• https://www.history.com/topics/f
rance/napoleon
• https://www.britannica.com/biog
raphy/Napoleon-I
• http://www.historyworld.net/wrld
his/plaintexthistories.asp?histor
yid=aa57