Napoleon Bonaparte Research Paper

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769 on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His parents were apart of Corsican nobility but weren't wealthy. He was the fourth and the second surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Romalino Buonaparte. His dad , Carlo Buonaparte was a lawyer. When Carlo got a plush job in 1771 it enabled him to enroll his two sons into college (France’s College d’Autun). Napoleon was only nine at this time and was considered an outsider. Eventually Napoleon ended up going to a military college for five years before going to Paris military academy but he learned the french language and graduated in 1785. When he graduated in September of 1785 he was ranked 42nd out of 58 people in the class. When he was at the academy in Paris he received awful news. His father died of stomach

Under Napoleon’s guidance, the rebuilt army won many crucial victories against the Austrians greatly expanded their empire. Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796. They has no offspring with each other so he had their marriage annulled so he could find a new wife and produce an heir. He ended up marrying Marie Louise who was the daughter of the emperor of Austria. A year later she gave birth to their son Napoleon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte (Napoleon II) who was given the title ‘King of Rome’. In 1799 in November an event known as the coup of 18 Brumaire successfully overthrew the French Directory. “The Directory was replaced with a three-member Consulate, and Napoleon became first consul, making him France’s leading political figure.In June 1800, at the Battle of Marengo, Napoleon’s forces defeated one of France’s perennial enemies, the Austrians, and drove them out of Italy. The victory helped cement Napoleon’s power as first consul.” (history.com). Under his supervision Napoleon turned his views to different territories of the nation including its economy, legal system and even the Church. He restored Roman Catholicism as the state