August 15 1769, birth of Napoleon Bonaparte





Napoleon Bonaparte

Today is the birth day of  Napoleon Bonaparte, a french politician and military genius. Napoleon was the second to the eldest among the eight children of  Carlo Bounaparte who is an attorney and the representative to the court of king Louis XVI. He was greatly influenced By his mother, Letizia Ramolino, to whom napoleon attributed his extraordinary discipline. 


Bonaparte entered a military training, he entered the french military and served as second lieutenant. he was also known as "The little corporal" because of his physical height, but historians believed that napoleon was not small enough to enter the army.

After showing of greatness in french military campaigns, he organized the occupation of Egypt to fully control the Suez canal to paralyze and sabotage the economy of England through mercantilism. 

 

While in Egypt, busy of his triumphant invasion, he managed to conspire with one of the directors of the french directory in organizing a plot to overthrow the french constitutional government and make themselves as consul of the french people. On the other hand, napoleon was very clever enough to out maneuvered the new government, he  drafted the new french constitution making him the head of the french army and the absolute monarch of the french, vested with the absolute power over his subjects as ordained by God.

 

In the midst of his reign and wars, Emperor Alexander of Russia was convinced by his congress to withdraw his alliance in the french system and join the British alliance instead, in favor of economic relations. When the news reached napoleon he threatened Alexander to face the consequences if he pursue to break the alliance, but still Alexander did so. On June 23, 1812 napoleon commenced the invasion of Russia through its capital, Moscow. Many where killed in the Russian campaign espicially in the battle of  Borodino, but the fate is with napoleon and he became victorious.

A mutiny was organized by his army to overthrown his current empire. Due to this infidelity of his men he was exiled in the a remote island of Elba in the Atlantic ocean as ordered by the congress of  Vienna. Bonaparte manage to escape from imprisonment, and was about to stop by the 5th  regiment when he shown with a range of gunshot and shouted: "Here I am, Kill your Emperor. if you wish".

Bonaparte returned to France together with his loyal army and start to retrieve his stolen empire. Organized a rest-back to his mortal enemies, the congress of Vienna declared war against him. Napoleon's empire was totally ended in the battle of Waterloo where he and his great army found there defeat once again.

He was exiled the the island of St. Helena where he died of alleged stomach cancer , but researchers debated the true reason of his death. Some says he was a victim of Arsenic poisoning, due to arsenic samples found in his hair  through autopsy and the preservation of his corpse was an evidence that he was exposed to arsenic though. Arsenic was used as preservatives by manufacturing company in England. In 2008, Scientist finally found that Napoleon's death was really caused by stomach cancer.