Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte

• By Travis Offtermatt
• Notes From
• gshaskell.com

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• Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
• Napoleon was born on a French rules island of
  Corsica (in the Mediterranean)
• He was not part of the aristocracy. He was a
  commoner but attended schools with the
  privileged. It was a great discouragement to not
  find acceptance by the upper class students. He
  struggled with the idea that he was brighter than
  most of his classmates but did not receive the
  recognition due to his lack of status. This drove
  him to study harder and fueled his ambitions.

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• 1789 Napoleon was a French lieutenant during the
  French Revolutionary war.
• He fought the British in 1793 and helped drive
  them out of Toulon. The French Revolutionary War
  years proved to be successful ones for Napoleon.
  He finds himself on the battlefield.
• 1799 he helps overthrow the weakened Directory.
• 1802 Napoleon names himself First Consul for
  life.
• 1804 he named himself emperor of the French. At
  his coronation he grabs the crown out of the
  popes hands and places it on his own head. This
  signifies that Napoleon wanted to show he was
  above the recognition from the pope. He wants to
  show himself under the authority of no secular or
  religious individual.

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• 1812 He invades Russia. This is a major
  miscalculation by Bonaparte. His troops are
  defeated by the winter, rather than the Russian
  army.
• Exiled to Elba
• 1815 defeated at Waterloo (short lived return)
  The Duke of Wellington (Britain) with the
  alliance of Austria, Prussia and Russia stop
  Napoleon once and for all.
• He died in exile in 1821 (on Saint Helena Island)

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Who was Napoleon?

• His Glory Days
• He said, "I am a superior individual."
• He said, Since one must take sides, one might as
  well choose the side that is victorious, the side
  which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering
  the alternative, it is better to eat than be
  eaten."

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In Exile

• Paraphrase - He said, "I know men and Jesus
  Christ was no mere man. I, Charlemagne, Hannibal,
  and others have devoted our lives accumulating
  power, and we have no followers. Jesus Christ has
  died, and at this very moment millions would die
  for him."