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Birth
Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio, Corsica. He was the sencond of 8 children. -
Early Life
At age 10 he was able to join the French military school. He went with his older brother Joseph. He went to college of Autum in Burgurdy, France but then transferred to the College of Brienne. -
Early Career
Upon graduating in September 1785, Bonaparte was commissioned a second lieutenant in La Fère artillery regiment. He served on garrison duty in Valence, Drôme and Auxonne until after the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, and took nearly two years leave in Corsica and Paris during this period. -
Ruler of France
He learned France had suffered a series of defeats in the War of the Second Coalition. The Directory sent him orders to return to ward off possible invasions of French soil. -
War of the Fifth Coalition
Napoleon was forced to assume command of forces on the Danube and German fronts. Defeated the Austrians at Wagram, and the Treaty of Schönbrunn. -
Peninsular War
In Spain, Napoleon faced a new type of war, called the guerrilla warfare which is the enemy would attack and then hide. Napoleon took command and defeated the Spanish Army. Following several allied victories, the war concluded after Napoleon's abdication in 1814. -
Exile to Elba
They put him on the island and allowed him to retain his title of emperor. He tryed to comitte suicide with a pill he had carried since a near-capture by Russians on the retreat from Moscow. After a few month's he created a smally army. -
Exile from Saint Helen
apoleon was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. His first two months there, he lived in a pavilion on the Briars estate, which belonged to a William Balcombe. There were rumurs the Napolean escaped.