Was the man Napoleon Bonaparte a great military strategist or just a poor planner for his troop? To know if he was, we must know who this man Napoleon Bonaparte was and how he came to power.
Napoleon was born in Ajaccio on the island of Corsica on August 15, 1769 to Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer and Letizia Romalino Buonaparte. Not, born to a wealthy family, but the Napoleons was part of the lesser nobility on the island of Corsica. It wasn’t till after the French acquired Corsica from Italy and years later that he changed his named to the French spelling from the Italian spelling. Thanks to his father who was appointed assessor of the judicial district of Ajaccio in 1771, thanks to his switching allegiance to the French. This plush job that
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After returning and finding this out he planned a second coup that would eventually put him in to power. Has his plan unfold Napoleons political skills soon led to a new constitution that created a position of first consul, which he himself would be. This first consul was nothing more than a dictatorship. Under the new constitution the consul was permitted to appoint all government positions. Also, under these new guidelines it didn’t matter if you were noble born or not the positions must be filled by someone who was qualified to do the job. Everything seem to change under Napoleons rule, but most people seemed to like these new reforms, because they had the power to change things and not just the nobles and the church made up the laws. With his new reforms to be proven popular he was elected consul for life in 1802, then two year later was proclaimed emperor of France, the first one to be frank. After becoming emperor and gaining peace with Europe, which did not last long, Napoleon was at it again, trying to conquer more land for his empire. His first plan to invade Britain failed and then he went after Russia and gained Austerlitz in 1805. This wasn’t all he won many battles, which greatly expanded the French empire, which then paved the way for loyalist to his government to be installed, in Holland, Italy, Naples, Sweden, Spain, and Westphalia. This only last for about five years, then a boarder defeats started to begin in 1810, when he suffered a string of losses that tapped the military budget. Then in 1812 France was devastated when it tried to invade Russia, which turned in to a huge failure, which turned Napoleon’s massive army for 600,000 men to just 10,000