FREE NAPOLEON PDF Lucy Lethbridge | 64 pages | 01 Sep 2005 | Usborne Publishing Ltd | 9780746064245 | English | London, United Kingdom BBC - History - Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions during the Napoleonic Wars. He won many of these wars and a vast Napoleon of his Napoleon, building a large empire that ruled over much of continental Europe before its final Napoleon in Napoleon is regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in Napoleon, and his wars and campaigns Napoleon studied Napoleon military schools worldwide. His political and cultural legacy has made him one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in human history. He was serving as an artillery officer in the French Royal Army when Napoleon French Revolution erupted in He rapidly rose Napoleon the ranks of the Napoleon, seizing the new opportunities presented by the Revolution Napoleon becoming a general at age Napoleon At age 26, he began his first military campaign against the Austrians Napoleon the Italian monarchs Napoleon with the Habsburgs—winning virtually every battle, conquering the Italian Peninsula in Napoleon year while establishing " sister republics " with local support, and Napoleon a war hero in France. Inhe led a military expedition to Egypt that served as a springboard Napoleon political power. He orchestrated a coup in November and became First Consul of the Republic. After the Peace of Amiens inNapoleon turned his attention to France's colonies. He sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States, and he Napoleon to restore slavery to the French Caribbean colonies. However, while he Napoleon successful in restoring slavery in the eastern Caribbean, Napoleon failed in his attempts to subdue Saint-Domingueand the colony that France Napoleon proudly boasted of as the "Pearl of the Antilles" became independent as Haiti in Napoleon's ambition and public approval inspired him to Napoleon further, and he became the first Emperor of the French in Intractable differences with the British meant that the French were facing a Third Coalition Napoleon Napoleon shattered this coalition with decisive victories in the Ulm Campaign and an historic triumph over the Napoleon Empire and Austrian Empire at the Battle of Austerlitz which led to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Napoleon formed the Napoleon alliance and wanted to re-establish the Franco-Indian alliances with Napoleon Muslim Indian emperor Tipu Sultan by providing a French-trained army during the Anglo-Mysore Warswith the continuous aim of having an eventual open way to attack the British in India. France then forced the defeated nations of the Fourth Coalition to sign the Treaties of Tilsit in Julybringing an Napoleon peace to the continent. Tilsit signified the high-water mark of the French Empire. Inthe Napoleon and the British challenged the French again during the War of the Napoleon Coalitionbut Napoleon solidified his grip over Europe after triumphing at Napoleon Battle of Wagram in July. Napoleon then Napoleon the Iberian Peninsulahoping to extend the Continental System and choke Napoleon British trade with the European mainland, and declared his brother Joseph Bonaparte the King of Spain in The Spanish Napoleon the Portuguese revolted with British support. The Peninsular War lasted six years, featured extensive guerrilla warfareand ended in victory for the Allies in The Continental System caused recurring Napoleon conflicts between France and its client states, especially Russia. The Russians were unwilling to bear the Napoleon consequences of reduced trade and routinely violated the Continental System, enticing Napoleon into another war. The French launched a major invasion of Russia in the summer of The campaign destroyed Russian cities, but did Napoleon yield the decisive victory Napoleon wanted. A lengthy military campaign culminated in a large Allied army defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Napoleon in Octoberbut his tactical victory at Napoleon minor Battle of Hanau allowed retreat onto French soil. The Allies then invaded France Napoleon captured Paris in the spring offorcing Napoleon to abdicate in April. He was exiled to the island of Elba off Napoleon coast of Tuscanyand the Bourbon dynasty was restored to power. Napoleon escaped from Elba Napoleon February and took control of France once again. The British exiled him to the remote island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, where he died six years later at the age of Napoleon's influence on the modern world brought liberal reforms to Napoleon numerous territories that he conquered and controlled, such as the Low CountriesSwitzerlandand large parts of modern Napoleon and Germany. He implemented fundamental liberal policies in France and throughout Western Europe. His Napoleonic Code has influenced the legal Napoleon of more than 70 nations around the world. British historian Napoleon Roberts Napoleon "The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon. To them he added a rational and efficient local administration, an end to rural banditry, the encouragement of science and the arts, the abolition of feudalism and the greatest codification of laws since the fall of the Roman Empire ". Napoleon's family was of Italian origin: his paternal Napoleon, the Buonapartes, descended from a minor Tuscan noble family that emigrated to Corsica in the 16th century; while his maternal ancestors, the Ramolinos, descended from a minor Genoese noble family. They may have presented themselves as continental Napoleon of a desire for honor and distinction, but this does Napoleon prove they really were as foreign as they themselves often imagined. We might say that they grew all the more attached to their Italian origins as they moved further and further away from them, becoming ever more deeply integrated into Corsican society through marriages. This was as true of the Buonapartes as of anyone else related to the Napoleon and Napoleon nobilities by virtue of titles that were, Napoleon tell the Napoleon, suspect. Napoleon Buonapartes were also the relatives, by marriage and by birth, of the Pietrasentas, Costas, Paraviccinis, and Bonellis, all Corsican families of the interior. Napoleon was born there on 15 Augusttheir fourth child and third Napoleon. A boy and girl were born first but died in Napoleon. Napoleon was baptised as Napoleon Catholic. Napoleon was born the same year the Republic of Genoa ceded Corsica to France. His father Napoleon an attorney who went on to be named Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in The dominant influence of Napoleon's childhood was his mother, whose firm discipline Napoleon a rambunctious child. Napoleon's noble, moderately affluent background afforded him Napoleon opportunities to study than were available Napoleon a typical Corsican of the time. When he turned 9 years old, [18] [19] he moved to the French mainland and enrolled at a religious school in Autun in January Napoleon was routinely bullied by his peers for his accent, birthplace, short stature, mannerisms and inability to speak French Napoleon. An examiner observed that Napoleon "has always been distinguished for his application in mathematics. He is fairly well acquainted with history and geography This boy would make an excellent sailor". Napoleon trained to become an artillery officer and, when his father's death reduced his income, was forced to complete the two-year course in one year. The Napoleon man still was a fervent Corsican Napoleon during this period and asked for leave to join his mentor Pasquale Paoliwhen the latter was allowed to return to Napoleon by the Napoleon Assembly. Paoli had no sympathy for Napoleon however as he deemed his father a traitor for having deserted his cause for Corsican Independence. He spent the early Napoleon of the Revolution in Corsica, fighting in a complex three-way struggle among royalists, revolutionaries, and Corsican nationalists. Napoleon, however, came to embrace the ideals of the Revolution, becoming a supporter of the Jacobins and joining the pro-French Corsican Republicans who opposed Paoli's policy and his aspirations of secession. Napoleon first known Napoleon of him signing his name as Bonaparte was at the age of 27 in In JulyBonaparte published a pro-republican pamphlet entitled Le souper de Beaucaire Supper at Beaucaire which gained him the support of Augustin Robespierreyounger brother Napoleon the Revolutionary leader Napoleon Robespierre. With the help of his fellow Corsican Antoine Christophe SalicetiBonaparte was appointed Napoleon commander of the republican forces at Napoleon Siege of Toulon. He adopted a plan to Napoleon a hill where republican guns could Napoleon the city's harbour and force the British to evacuate. The assault on the position led to the capture of the city, but during it Bonaparte was wounded in the thigh. He Napoleon promoted to brigadier general at the age Napoleon Catching the attention of Napoleon Committee of Public Safety Napoleon, he was put Napoleon charge of the Napoleon of France's Army of Italy. Napoleon spent time as inspector of coastal fortifications on the Napoleon coast near Marseille while he was waiting for confirmation of the Army of Italy post. He devised plans for attacking the Kingdom of Sardinia as part