Napoleon the Corsican !!!!!
8/15/1769 - 5/5/1821
NAPOLEON WAS NOT ABLE TO MOVE UP IN RANK BECAUSE OF HIS SOCIAL STATUS, HE CAME FROM MINOR NOBILITY ( POOR PEOPLE ). BUT ALL OF THIS WOULD CHANGE WITH A MINOR, LITTLE THING CALLED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION!!!
SUDDENLY NAPOLELON WAS SET FREE, HE APPRECIATED THE CHANGES THE REVOLUTION WAS BRINGING TO THE COUNTRY. AT 20 YEARS OLD NAPOLEON'S DESTINY AND THAT OF FRANCE APPEARED TO BE THE SAME.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YEARS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, THE STRUGGLES HE FACED AS A YOUNG MAN EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY HE WAS SO DRIVEN TO RISE TO POWER. AT ONLY 35 YEARS OLD HE DECLARED HIMSELF EMPEROR AND RULED A NATION FOR 11 YEARS . A NATION THAT WAS ALMOST CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF WAR......QUITE A FEAT FOR A MAN OF ONLY MINOR NOBILITY, NOT HAVING BEEN BORN INTO ROYALTY, BUT A PRODUCT OF POOR PEOPLE !