Napoleon Bonaparte: A Brilliant War Generals In History

France was the home of one of the most brilliant war generals in history. Though originally an Italian noble, he took pride in being part of the French after they took over his home city of Corsica. At age ten he began attending a French military school. Through his hard work he rose to second lieutenant within a few years. His name is Napoleon Bonaparte. There were several major success that led to Napoleon rising to power. His first big promotion came in 1793 when he took land back from the British. This was just the beginning of his military success. After this, he stopped the supporters of the king from rising, and was appointed commander of the Army of the Interior. When the war with Italy began Napoleon quickly swept through and conquered territory for France. After this he moved on to conquer lower Egypt. He helped build hospitals for the poor and reorganized the system for collecting taxes. Back in France he began making changes. One of the first things that was done was the elimination of The Directory. This was a group of five people that had absolute control over France. After overthrowing them he became the First Council, and started
After the revolution and the failure of regaining Haiti, those plans were abandoned. This also led to the selling of Louisiana to the United States. Although his plans fell through he still was in control in France. He began an embargo on Britain, and was able to get a significant amount of countries to join him. During the embargo he did take a major loss when his ships were destroyed, which meant that he no longer had a chance at attacking Britain. The embargo was unsuccessful against Britain and the Russians resumed trade with them in 1810. This led to Napoleon invading Russia in an attempt convince Alexander I to continue with the embargo. After reaching Moscow, Napoleon lost the majority of his army, and Alexander I had no interest in negotiating with