![]() ![]() On March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine de Beauharnais, the widow of General Alexandre de Beauharnais, and who had two children of her own. In the process, the Italian military greatly expanded the French border. 30,000 malnourished men with low moral were whipped into shape by the young commander, and were led to victories against Austria. In 1796 the Army of Italy, then a client nation of France, was placed under the command of Napoleon. ![]() Because of this he was named commander of the Army of the Interior, and became a trusted military advisor to the Government. Fortunately for Napoleon, he fell out of favor with Jacobin leadership, letting him avoid execution, and fell into the good graces of the Government, which he defended from counter-revolutionary fighters in 1795. The Jacobins came into dictatorial power for a short period that became known as the reign of terror. ![]() He joined his military unit in Nice in June 1793, and threw his political support behind the Jacobins, a progressive and popular party after the French Revolution. Napoleon’s return to France prompted a re-commissioning in the French military. Napoleon and Pasquale were split over many topics, so much so that Napoleon withdrew his support from the Nationalists, and moved his family to France, where they adopted the French version of their name Bonaparte. ![]() He graduated early from the aforementioned Parisian military academy, gained a commission as an artillery officer, and returned to Corsica in 1786.įollowing in his father’s footsteps, Napoleon lent his support to Pasquale Paoli, who had returned to Corsica to lead the Nationalists in a civil war. Napoleon’s father died in 1785, prompting him to move back to Corsica to head his family. This move allowed him to enroll both of his sons, Joseph and Napoleon, in the French College d’Autun.Īfter a few years at d’Autun, Napoleon gained admission to a military college in Brienne, which he attended for five years, after which he transferred to the military academy in Paris. When Paoli fled the Corsica for his life, Carlo Buonaparte shifted his allegiance to the side of France. Napoleon’s father was a strong supporter of the Corsican resistance leader, Pasquale Paoli. His father was Carlo Maria di Buonaparte, and his mother, Maria Letizia Ramolino. Napoleon was born on the 15 th of August, 1769, in French occupied Corsica. ![]()
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