The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte-I (Life, History, Biography)

 Napoleon Bonaprte-I

His Biography & Early in Short

In December 1778, the youthful Napoleon made his first voyage to France. The institution in Autun, Burgundy, where his father had registered him after receiving a scholarship, accepted him on January 1st of the following year. Napoleon enrolled in Brienne's military school in May 1779, which trained noble kids for a life in the military. He displayed astonishing mathematical talent.

In October 1784, he left this institution and joined the Company of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military School of Champ-de-Mars in Paris.

Napoleon experienced a difficult year in 1785 as he grieved the passing of his father Charles, who most likely died of stomach cancer and left a widow with eight children and little money. Napoleon was given his second lieutenant wings in the fall and sent to the La Fere artillery regiment, which was stationed in Valence in the Rhone Valley.

In October 1784, he left this institution and joined the Company of Gentlemen Cadets at the Royal Military School of Champ-de-Mars in Paris.

Napoleon experienced a difficult year in 1785 as he grieved the passing of his father Charles, who most likely died of stomach cancer and left a widow with eight children and little money. Napoleon was given his second lieutenant wings in the fall and sent to the La Fere artillery regiment, which was stationed in Valence in the Rhone Valley.

In June 1791, Napoleon received a promotion to first Lieutenant and left Auxonne for Valence's 4th Artillery Regiment. During a new leave, he enlisted in the National Guard of Ajaccio and participated in the battles that ultimately led to his forced return to Paris in May 1792 for self-defense. In July 1792, he was rehired as French army captain and dispatched to Ajaccio.

In June 1793, he was compelled to leave the island with his family due to a disagreement with Pasquale Paoli, whose supporters had looted Bonaparte's home. He enlisted in his unit at Nice as his family was relocating to Toulon. Following an assignment in Avignon, the National Convention named him Battalion Chief in charge of the artillery at Toulon, Provence. Napoleon, under the direction of General Jacques Dugommier, used his skill as a gunner to make a significant contribution to the expulsion of the English fleet. Along with Auguste Viesse de Marmont, Jean-Andoche Junot, André Masséna, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, and Claude-Victor Perrin, he fought with future marshals and generals of the Empire. He received the title of Brigadier General as compensation for his heroic actions.

By the time Maximilien Robespierre fell on July 27th (9 Thermidor), Napoleon Bonaparte had just finished writing the campaign plan and had been in charge of the artillery of the army of Italy since March 1794.

Napoleon proposed to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a wealthy silk maker, in Marseille in the spring of 1795. This was one of the few times Joseph Bonaparte, who was married to Desiree's older sister, set an example for his younger sibling. Later that year, Napoleon turned down the position of general of infantry in the Army of the West, worked for a short time at the committee of public safety's topographical office, and offered to lead an army-building expedition to Turkey.... before being struck from the list of qualified generals.

In October 1795, he was appointed command of the troops assigned with putting down the royalist section rebellion in Paris by Paul Barras, the Army of the Interior's commanding general. With the aid of Guillaume Brune and Joachim Murat, Napoleon Bonaparte routed about 25,000 royalist rebels on Vendemiaire 13 near the Church of Saint-Roch. As a result, in addition to being the Commander in Chief of the Army of the Interior, he was awarded the title of Major General and the nickname "General Vendemiaire".

Napoleon “The War’s God”

Above all else, Napoleon was a soldier. He spent six years in the military academy in Brienne before transferring to the esteemed Royal School of the Champ de Mars in Paris. He possessed an intuitive understanding of warfare because, oddly, neither the strategy nor the tactics were on the institutions' agenda. His main military virtue was courage. The day he received his officer's commission at "sixteen years and fifteen days," as he liked to emphasize, though after attaining the peak of glory, is one of his fondest recollections. He also adored this work.

For his benefit, he was a remarkable soldier who lived in no less of a period. Officer at age 16, General at age 24, and Commander-in-Chief at age 27, he rose through the ranks. This soaring career, which was brighter than any other, was not unique at a time when unidentified men with no assistance might carelessly ascend the social ladder and sprint along the pathways to fame.

The early years of Napoleon's career, during the leisurely pace of the waning Old Regime, give us a chance to speculate about what this Corsican nobleman's life might have been like under different circumstances: a protracted alternation of leave and garrison life, culminating in setting retirement as a lieutenant colonel.

In contrast, the French Revolution opted to lead and elevate him as a result of the conflicts it carelessly started in 1792.

When Napoleon assumed command of a ragged army in Nice, France, in March 1796, on a theatre of operations that the French rulers had thought of as secondary, there were some cannons pointing towards Avignon, Toulon was under siege, and there was scattered rioting in Paris. This was Napoleon's first taste of combat. Within days, he inspired his troops, he put pressure on his Major Generals (men of the calibre of André Masséna or Pierre Augereau, as experienced as they were impressionable, older by age and by military rank than him), and he launched the Campaign in Italy. This feat alone would have been enough to cement his place in the hall of fame of great captains..

When the narrative came to an end twenty years later, Napoleon had fought more battles than Hannibal, Caesar, and Alexander put combined while waging war in Africa, Asia, and throughout Europe from Madrid to Moscow.

Despite being in charge for many years before being defeated, he lost the high command's support but never that of the majority of the army. His soldiers were fully aware that he was still one of them. Of course, the first, but also their comrade in arms. One of them was selected to serve as a corporal on victory night. one who was content to share a meal with others in the bivouac at night, even as Emperor. One who used to spend his nights dozing off in the makeshift hut they had built for him. Before being made for all time by this epic victory, the "God of War," in the words of Carl von Clausewitz, one who spent the happiest evening of his life among their flambeaus on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz.