Napoleon

Napoleon hehe se mmurio Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte, Italian: Napoleone Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe.
As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the NapoleonicCode, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for his role in the wars led against France by a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars. He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposedAncien Régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time, and his campaigns are studied at military academies worldwide.[1]
Napoleon was born at Ajaccio in Corsica to parents of noble Italian ancestry. He trained as an artillery officer in mainland France. He rose to prominence underthe French First Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. He led a successful invasion of the Italian peninsula.
In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a seriesof conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars—that involved every major European power.[1] After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe, and Napoleon maintained the French sphere of influence through the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.
The Peninsular War and 1812French invasion of Russia marked turning points in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was badly damaged in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig; the following year the Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but wasdefeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, but there has been some debate about the cause of his death, as some scholars have speculated that he was a victim of arsenic poisoning.
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1 Origins and education
2 Early career2.1 Siege of Toulon (1793)
2.2 13 Vendémiaire (1795)
2.3 First Italian campaign (1796–97)
2.4 Egyptian expedition (1798–1801)
3 Ruler of France
3.1 French Consulate
3.1.1 Temporary peace in Europe
3.2 French Empire
3.2.1 War of the Third Coalition
3.2.2 Middle-Eastern alliances
3.2.3 War of the Fourth Coalition
3.2.4 Peninsular War
3.2.5 War of the Fifth Coalition and remarriage
3.2.6Invasion of Russia
3.2.7 War of the Sixth Coalition
3.2.8 Exile to Elba
3.2.9 Hundred Days
4 Exile on Saint Helena
4.1 Death
4.1.1 Cause of death
5 Reforms
5.1 Napoleonic Code
5.2 Metric system
6 Napoleon and religions
6.1 Concordat
6.2 Religious emancipation
7 Image
8 Legacy
8.1 Warfare
8.2 Bonapartism
8.3 Criticism
8.4 Propaganda and memory
8.5 Legacy outside France
9Marriages and children
10 Titles, styles, honours and arms
10.1 Titles and styles
10.2 Full titles
10.3 1804–1805
10.4 1805–1806
10.5 1806–1809
10.6 1809–1814
10.7 1815
11 Ancestry
12 See also
13 Notes
14 Citations
15 References
16 External links
Origins and education

Napoleon's father Carlo Buonaparte was Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI of France.
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