Why Is Napoleon Bonaparte Successful

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15th of August 1769 in Corsica. Educated at military school, he served in Valence and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general at age of 24 because of his strategy in the siege of Toulon and subsequently appointed as the commander of French Army in Italy.
France now faced a new coalition - Austria and Russia had allied with Britain. Napoleon returned to Paris, where the government was in crisis. He seized such chaos in French Government and eventually became consul and emperor of France.
In 1800, he defeated the Austrians at Marengo. He then negotiated peace with conditions that strongly favored the supremacy of France within the European continent.
Napoleon Bonaparte’s decisiveness and military knowledge was the key to this great success of French Army. First of all, Napoleon Bonaparte demonstrated great extent of knowledge about his own army and the situation in the battlefield. He implemented Corps d'Armée system for the first time, which established the corps as the basis of military strategy. The increased size and agility of units allowed them to operate better and to endure longer since they can scatter around for local foods when needed. This military campaign only lasted less than a month, in which Napoleon Bonaparte showed great decisiveness on his instructions to his army. He ordered his troops to carry less baggage since the fight took place in harvest season so that his troops surrounded their enemies quickly and unexpectedly. In addition, there is an interesting detail after the war that proofed his tact. When the commander of the Austrian Army Mack von Liebereich came to surrender, Napoleon Bonaparte smiled and replied: “I give back to the unfortunate General his sword and his freedom, along with my regards to give to his Emperor.” His tact to deal with the enemy successfully ensured the subsequent benefits that France can obtain from the