rise and fall of napoleon

The Rise and fall of Napoleon

The age of Napoleon

· From 1799 to 1815, Napoleon dominated French and European history.
· The event that brought him to power happened ten years after the French Revolution.
· Tanks to the French Revolution, it made possible his first rise in the military and then to the great power in France.

The rise of Napoleon

· Napoleon was born in Corsica in 1769
· He obtained a high-class scholarship to study at a military school in France.
· During his education, as a lieutenant the others didn’t love him because he was short, he had an Italian accent and he wasn’t as rich as the others.
· During the next several years, Napoleon spent a lot of time reading the works of the philosophes and educating himself in military affairs by studying the campaigns of important military leaders form the past.
· The French revolution and the European War presented Napoleon new opportunities.
· He rose quickly ...