A Ero Or A Tyrant
A man with the image of Ceasar in his mind and the sword of the French Revolution in his hand, was heading to conqure the Europe . This man was Napoleon Bonaparte. In the suitable environment that was formed after the French Revolution, Bonaparte found the opportunity to rise up to the governance of the state. However Napoleon was not the man of the French Revolution. His head was full of ambition and his heart was beating with the desire of power and once he came to authority he declared himself as the emperor. Hence, the simple truth about Napoleon is that, during his authority he was leaded neither by the spirit of the revolution, nor by the values it brought about such as liberty and nationalism, but just by his own passion of power.
Who is that Napoleon and what made him to gain power? In order to find out the answers to these questions, it is necessary to know the life of Bonaparte and the consequences of the French Revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Corsica as the second son of Carlo Bonaparte and Marie Leticia Romolino. He got his military education in Paris and joined to the artillery branch of the army in Valance in 1785. As a result of his success and talent he became sharply pointed and was promoted to the commandership of the artillery in Italy in 1794 and one year later in 1795 to the head of the army in France and then in 1796 he became the commander of the army in Italy. In that year he carried out his first campaign to Italy and won a great victory. By this campaign his fame and victory spread around the Europe and he won the approval and the support of French people. Then other victories and some defeats follow which can be summarized under the name of Napoleonic Era.
The success of Napoleon can only be understood when Napoleonic Era and the consequences of the French Revolution are fitted together because Napoleon's great success was that he successfully analysed the spirit of the...
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