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[[Image:Y8r587ig.jpg|right|thumb|230px|Napoleon I by [[Jacques Louis David]]]]

[[Image:Y8r587ig.jpg|right|thumb|230px|Napoleon I by [[Jacques Louis David]]]]

'''Napoléon Bonaparte''' (1769-1821) was born ''Napoleone di Buonaparte'' in the town of Ajaccio, one year after the island of Corsica was transferred to France by the Republic of Genoa (Italy).

'''Napoléon Bonaparte''' (1769-1821) was born ''Napoleone di Buonaparte'' in the town of Ajaccio, one year after the island of [[Corsica]] was transferred to France by the Republic of Genoa (Italy).

He was a famous [[France|French]] general and a military mastermind. He revolutionized the military applications of artillery, and routinely moved his troops faster and with fewer supplies than was then thought possible, allowing for unprecedentedly large and rapid concentrations of force against his slower and less adaptable enemies.  He was the emperor of France from 1802-1814, and famously short.  He  rose to power by overthrowing the increasingly ineffective and bureucratic liberal councils which had taken power during the [[French Revolution]].  As his list of military victories lengthened, seized more and more domestic power, eventually becoming Emperor of a French state more centralized than ever before.

He was a famous [[France|French]] general and a military mastermind. He revolutionized the military applications of artillery, and routinely moved his troops faster and with fewer supplies than was then thought possible, allowing for unprecedentedly large and rapid concentrations of force against his slower and less adaptable enemies.  He was the emperor of France from 1802-1814, and famously short.  He  rose to power by overthrowing the increasingly ineffective and bureucratic liberal councils which had taken power during the [[French Revolution]].  As his list of military victories lengthened, seized more and more domestic power, eventually becoming Emperor of a French state more centralized than ever before.