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Napoleon Bonaparte is born in 1769, on Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Napoleon becomes a captain in the French Army, starting his quick rise through the ranks.
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Napoleon rises through the ranks, after graduating from military school, and at age 27, becomes commander of the French armies stationed in Italy.
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He strategically struck Britian at Egypt
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After the british defeated the French Navy, after they tried to take Egypt, they were forced to flee.
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He took part in a coup d'etat that overthrew the Directory, and set up the consulate, a new government.
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Napoleon creates his new Civil Code, that preserved many revolutionary principles.
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Napoleon and his combined French and Spanish army is defeated by the British navy at Trafalgar. Napoleon hoped to invade Britian, b ut he was again defeated by the enemy navy.
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He created a new aristocracy, and between 1808 and 1814, he created around 3,200 nobles, made up of military officers and civil officials
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After his army was bloddily defeated by the British and the Prussians, under the Duke of Wellington, he was exiled to the island of St. Helena, and died 6 years later.
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In my opinion, I think that Napoleon kind of did both, preserving the goals and ideals of the Revolution, but also destroying them at times. For example, he supported equality of all citizens before the law by enacting the Civil Code, which was based on many revolutionary principles. The Code also gave citizens the right to chose a profession, it introduced a higher tolerance for religion, and many other foundations. H
