World celebrity biography books:Napoleon

"Napoleon"tells: Napoleon was born in Corsica Ajaccio in 1769, when Corsica that belonged to the Republic of Genoa before Napoleon was born was just sold to the Republic of France. His clan was a declined Italian aristocratic family, but the king of France admitted that his father was a noble of the Republic of France. At the age of nine, Napoleon went to France buliaina Military Academy according to the arrangement of his father. In 1784 he was elected to Paris High Military School to major artillery, in one year he got the military officer certification that others needed 3 years, he was appointed as the second lieutenant of the royal artillery. His father died when he was 16. When he garrisoned different places with the army, he read many works of the enlighten thinkers, the idea of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who was one of the enlighten thinkers influenced him greatly. Napoleon looked himself as a foreigner at the very start; it was always in his mind that Corsica could break from the Republic of France to get independence. In 1789 after French Revolution breaking out, Napoleon came back to Corsica to promote it to get independence, but he was excluded by a Anglomania group, he with his whole family fled to France in the end. He was appreciated by Jacobin as he led his army to break into Toulon the fort of royalist In July 1793. Napoleon was investigated for the close relation with brothers Roberspierre during the Thermidorian Reaction in 1794, and he was dismissed the military rank of brigadier as he refused to serve in Italian army. In 1795 he was promoted to be the lieutenant general and the commander in chief of Paris garrison in one night after he was entrusted by Barras the directorate of Paris to put down the rebellion of the royalist successfully, which made him to stand out conspicuously in military and political circles. Napoleon was an excellent militarist who deeply researched the military knowledge of that time, and who was good at practicing various military strategies into actual combat, and who paid more attention to applying the tactics of artillery as he was once an artillerist and especially advocated that artillery should be used concentratively to exert the motility of the cavalry. On March 2, 1796 Napoleon in 26 years`s old was appointed as the commander in chief of Italian corps the Republic of France. On March 6 he married his lover Joséphine de Beauharnais and went to the front line right after marriage. In Italy Napoleon's army defeated the First Coalition Forces composed by Austria and Sardinia for several times, and the opposite side was forced to sign the armistice treaty in favor of the Republic of France.

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