Napoleon
A story about Napoleon... duh
Overview
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769 in Corsica into a gentry family. Educated at military school, he was rapidly promoted and in 1796, was made commander of the French army in Italy, where he forced Austria and its allies to make peace. In 1798, Napoleon conquered Ottoman-ruled Egypt in an attempt to strike at British trade routes with India. He was stranded when his fleet was destroyed by the British at the Battle of the Nile.
Education
France was already a country with excellent Universities—Sorbonne and Montpellier to name two—but this privilege was basically dedicated to the education of the children of the aristocrats and elites. Napoleon, while creating the Code Napoleon, or Civil Code, which recharged and codified many of the laws and institutions of France, was faced with a series of existing laws that varied in each French province. He set out to replace the tangled mess with a standard code for all French people. He also brought powerful changes to the education of all citizens’ children. He established the pan-French system of lycees (secondary schools) which educated and prepared students for the universities. This had been a long standing desire of the revolutionaries.
Napoleon saw to it that education was available to all. If the student could not afford tuition, he offered scholarships to students—including those who could not afford to pay the fees.
Battles
This site has too many good battles.It is in the link napoleon battles site
Quotes
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
“Imagination rules the world.”
“The French complain of everything, and always.”
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Some Tidbits I Found
Napoleons brother claims to have seen The Jersey Devil
Napoleon’s hat was at an auction in Paris