Obituary of Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte born August 15, 1769 and was pronounced dead on May 5, 1821 at the age of 52. Napoleon was born and raised in a gentry’s family in Corsica, he was educated at a Military School, and was promoted. In 1796, was made commander of the France Army in Italy, and forced Austria and its allies to make peace. Napoleon conquered Ottoman-ruled Egypt in an attempt to strike at British trade routes with India in the year of 1798. The British at the battle of the Nile was victories and stranded Napoleon and his fleet.

When Napoleon returned to Paris, the Paris Government was in a crisis, and Austria and Russia had allied with Britain. In November of 1799, Napoleon became first consul, in 1800 he defeated the Austrians at Marengo, and then negotiated a general European peace which established French power on the continent. Then in 1802 he was made consul for life and two years later, he was the emperor. He oversaw the centralisation of government, the creation of the Bank of France, the reinstatement of Roman Catholicism as the state religion and law reform with the Code Napoleon.

Britain resumed war with France in 1803, and later joined by Russia and Austria. Infliction of a naval defeat on the French at Trafalgar in 1805, he abandoned plans to invade England. At the same time he turned on Austro-Russian forces, defeating them at Austerlitz in that same year. He gained much new territory, including annexation of Prussian lands which ostensibly gave him control of Europe. The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, Holland and Westphalia created, and over the next 5 years, Napoleon’s relatives and loyalists were installed as leaders.

Napoleon later that year had a child. The Peninsular War began in 1808. 1810, he married Josephine de Beauharnais annulled and married the daughter of the Austrian emperor in the hope of having an heir. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 resulted in a disastrous retreat. March 1814, Paris fell;...