Nepoleon Bonaparte was the most successful political leader, a French military and the first Emperor of France ever.
Napoleon was born in august 15, 1769 in France. He was born in a family of noble Italian Ancestry which has settled in Corsica in the 16th century. He 1.78 m tall young man trained as an artillery officer in the France. He was considered world's greatest leader and a great Emperor in the West. He revolutionized military organization ,training and he is best remember for his role in the wars led against France by series of coalitions, so-called Napoleonic Wars. Due to his success in these wars against superior enemies he is generally regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all the time and his life histories and all his activities about wars are now studied in the military academies worldwide.
The Peninsular War and 1812 French invasion of Russia marked turning points in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armee was badly damaged in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig, the following year the Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba. Less than a year later, he escaped Elba and returned to power, but was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. Napoleon spent the last six years of his life in confinement by the British on the island of Saint Helena. An autopsy concluded he died of stomach cancer, but there has been some debate about the cause of his death, as some scholars have speculated that he was a victim of arsenic poisoning. He died May 5, 1821.
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