In this book we discuss about the leaders who had significant impact on the history of mankind.
1.....Napoléon Bonaparte (born
Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821), usually referred to as simply Napoleon in English, was a French...
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Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, on the French island of Corsica, on August 15, 1769.
Napoleon was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino.
Around the time of Napoleon's birth, Corsica's occupation by the French had drawn considerable local resistance. Carlo Buonaparte had at first supported the nationalists siding with their leader, Pasquale Paoli.
But after Paoli was forced to flee the island, Carlo switched his allegiance to the French. After doing so he was appointed assessor of the judicial district of Ajaccio in 1771, a plush job that eventually enabled him to enroll his two sons, Joseph and Napoleon, in France's College d'Autun.
