Napoléon Bonaparte
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Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) was a general and politician of France.
Napoleon was born on Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. He became a general in the French army and won battles in Western Europe and Egypt. He became consul, the head of the government, in 1799. In 1804 he crowned himself Emperor. Napoleon was an extremly great tactian and commander. He became an 2nd Lieutenant artillery-Cannons- commander at age 16. He conquered most of Europe. The only powerful countries he could not defeat were Russia , Portugal and England, yet the only reasons why he could not defeat them was because the British Navy was superior to Napoleon's, Portugal was able to outlast him with british help and that Russia was extremly cold in the winter. In 1812, he invaded Russia with 600,000 men. When the winter started, most of his men died because of the cold. Napoleon had to retreat and was later defeated at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig and was sent to the Italian island of Elbain 1814. But he managed to escape from there and became emperor in France again. 100 days later, he was defeated again by Wellington, one of the most able generals in the British army, at the Battle of Waterloo, one of the most famous battles in history. This time Napoleon was to go to Saint Helena, a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He died there in 1821.