French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)
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The Corsican artillery officer who crowned himself emperor and reshaped Europe through fifteen years of nearly unbroken conquest—then lost it all to coalition armies and died in exile on a rock in the South Atlantic.
Born on Corsica in 1769 to an Italian family, Napoleon joined the French Royal Army in 1785 and threw his weight behind the Revolution four years later. He shot to prominence at the siege of Toulon in 1793, crushed royalist insurgents in Paris in 1795, and within a year was leading campaigns that humiliated Austria and made him a national hero. An Egyptian expedition and a coup in November 1799 put him at the head of the Republic as First Consul; by December 1804 he had crowned himself Emperor of the French. For a decade he shattered coalition after coalition—Austerlitz dissolved the Holy Roma…
Sourced, dated quotes from Napoleon
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
All great events hang by a hair.
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose.
Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed.
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