Napoleon : Knight or Tyrannical Leader ? by Mia Beatrix Grundlingh https://padlet.com/miagrundlingh/c8mf1g30t7z A brief introduction to the times, trials and tribulations of the 19th century leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. [1769 - 1821] Interactive Task : Find a YouTube video of 2 minutes that illustrates the life of Napoleon.Please embed this videoclip into a 5 slide Keynote Presentation. en-us 2016-09-28 12:28:49 UTC 2026-02-12 03:53:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Commencement of Career: miagrundlingh https://padlet.com/miagrundlingh/c8mf1g30t7z/wish/126928934
  • What did Napoleon do to gain military prestige, at the such a young age? 

    • He received his first commission on 1 September 1785, at the age of sixteen, 
    • His first significant military engagement is at Toulon in 1793. 

    • In July this Mediterranean port and arsenal is seized by royalist counter-revolutionaries who deliver it into the hands of an Anglo-Spanish fleet.
    •  In the ensuing siege by French republican forces the commander of the artillery is wounded. 
    • Napoleon is promoted to the post. When the city is taken, in December, Napoleon's artillery tactics. 

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    Almost an Italian: 1769-1795
     
    Napoleon's date of birth, in Corsica in 1769, makes him by just fifteen months a native French citizen. 

    Most of Corsica's traditional links are with Italy, from which Napoleon's family, the Buonaparte, have arrived during the 16th century. 
     
    The Corsicans have been fighting for much of the 18th century to liberate their island from the rule of Genoa. 

    In 1768 the Genoese, unable to control this troublesome island, sell it to France. The French invade, overwhelm the Corsicans and from 1769 administer the region as a French province. 
                
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    • Napoleon's father, a member of the Corsican nobility, accepts a position in the French administration. He is therefore able to arrange education in France for his two eldest sons. Napoleon is the second son in a large family. Eight Bonaparte children survive infancy.
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    • The young Corsican (who changes the spelling of his name to the more French-seeming Bonaparte in 1796) is educated in a military academy at Brienne-le-Château. At the age of sixteen, in 1785, he becomes a second lieutenant in an artillery regiment. In the early years of the French Revolution he shows an interest in radical politics. Stationed in Valence in 1791, he becomes president of the local Jacobin club - and duly fulminates against aristocrats and bishops. 
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  • Sage words from a determined leader : 








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    Place of Death : 
    St Helena Island. 














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