To have a name which lights at least a little tiny spark of interest from almost every human being on Earth, is a talent that not many people have much claim to. If he was still alive, there is barely any doubt that Napoleon Bonaparte would be very proud. Bonaparte, who died close to two hundred years ago, still seems to be in the land of the living. This man changed the course of history, shaping the world into what it is today. All of this may sound as though he were some kind of priest, but how exactly did he manage to do what he did?
He was born in August 1769 on the island of Corsica to a family with seven other children. Napoleon Bonaparte was raised in a strongly anti-French household. By the time he was nine, Napoleon was sent to a military school by his Father. He stayed there till he graduated and joined the French Ecole Militaire elite army force. He always seemed to be lucky, he quickly rose through the ranks, getting promoted to general brigadier (which is an officer in the British army) at the age of twenty-four, and gathered control of the entire French army. It was in this position with which he forced Austria to …show more content…
Everything he did was with his own interests at heart, which is what most of us would have done had we been in his position. Every little action he made, though some were rather rash, was evaluated and determined whether or not it would make an impact on himself or not. I do not believe that he cared all that much about the unity of different countries, except to see them united under him. It is agreed that his accomplishments were great and very impressive, but I think that they were carried out with the wrong objectives and interests at heart, thus rendering them utterly meaningless. However, it is quite evident that without this great man, the world today would have been a whole new place, perhaps even with Rome at the center of it
He was born in August 1769 on the island of Corsica to a family with seven other children. Napoleon Bonaparte was raised in a strongly anti-French household. By the time he was nine, Napoleon was sent to a military school by his Father. He stayed there till he graduated and joined the French Ecole Militaire elite army force. He always seemed to be lucky, he quickly rose through the ranks, getting promoted to general brigadier (which is an officer in the British army) at the age of twenty-four, and gathered control of the entire French army. It was in this position with which he forced Austria to …show more content…
Everything he did was with his own interests at heart, which is what most of us would have done had we been in his position. Every little action he made, though some were rather rash, was evaluated and determined whether or not it would make an impact on himself or not. I do not believe that he cared all that much about the unity of different countries, except to see them united under him. It is agreed that his accomplishments were great and very impressive, but I think that they were carried out with the wrong objectives and interests at heart, thus rendering them utterly meaningless. However, it is quite evident that without this great man, the world today would have been a whole new place, perhaps even with Rome at the center of it