Third son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais, the future emperor was born in Paris on Wednesday 20 April 1808 at one o’clock in the morning, eleven months after the death of his elder brother Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. They are, with the king of Rome, the only princes of the family who were […]
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Napoleon Bonaparte went through his youth studying at various French military schools. He paid off the good deed when he became military emperor under Louis XVI at the age of 24. During the French Revolution he rose to political power and joined the revolution. When England, Austria, and Russia attempted to overthrow the revolutionary war […]
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The Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1895 was Napoleon’s last military engagement and a defeat from which he never recovered. On June 17, 1815, heavy rains hit the region around Mont-Saint-Jean, and both French and British military campaigns experienced delays. The next day the ground was not sufficiently dry, which weakened the effectiveness of […]