Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military general and emperor of France from 1804 to 1815. Read about his height, rise to power, quotes, exile, death, and more.
When the Corsican general seized power in a coup in 1799, he proclaimed himself a defender of the republican ideals that had come from the revolution. But, as Marisa Linton explains, the would-be emperor did all he could to dismantle them
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