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Napoleon Bonaparte Research Paper

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Napoleon Bonaparte emperor of France is a well-known figure nowadays, especially in his home nation, France. He is glorified for enlarging his country France, and he is usually the figure of nationalism in France. Napoleon Bonaparte rise up from being a general to being the emperor of France due to a large quantity of turmoil and mass executions. All this disturbance just created more chaos and lead Napoleon into taking the opportunity to rule France through a coup d’état.
After the coup d’état a new government, the Consulate, was set up. There were three consults and this were; Bonaparte and two other directors who had resigned, Sieyès and Pierre-Roger Ducos. But it was Bonaparte who was henceforth the master of France. Napoleon's reign had …show more content…

After being in it for a couple of years and finalizing his education he was sent back to his hometown, but there was nothing for him to do, so he left again and this time joined in 1784 the Military College of Paris. After a couple of months Napoleon had success and had made a mark. He attended school for ten years. Napoleon was a reader of Voltaire and of Rousseau, and he believed that a political change were necessary. He didn't act out immediately. He moved back to Paris and in Paris he joined the Jacobin Club. It was a debating society initially favoring a constitutional monarchy, and soon he became its president, he talked in public against nobles, bishops, and monks. In September 1791 he got to leave to go back to Corsica again for three months he got elected lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, and made some leadership advancements. With such a great knowledge of military tactics, he was ask to take a position in the French army. In May 1795 the United Provinces of the Netherlands became the French-influenced Batavian Republic. In northern Italy, the Austrian-Sardinian positions were under attack by the French army, but its commander at the time was reluctant to move. In March 1796 he was replaced by Napoleon Bonaparte who at this time had gained the title of general. The troops …show more content…

Yet the situation remained confused, and one of the new directors, Emmanuel Sieyès, was convinced that only military dictatorship could prevent a restoration of the monarchy: “I am looking for a sabre,” he said. Bonaparte did not take long to make up his mind. He would leave his army and return to France—in order to save the republic, of course, but also to take advantage of the new circumstances and to seize power. The Directory had, in fact, ordered his return, but he had not received the order, so that it was actually in disregard of his instructions that he left Egypt with a few companions on August 22, 1799. Their two frigates surprisingly escaped interception by the British, and Bonaparte arrived in Paris on October

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