A Chronicle of the life of Napoleon and the history of the French Revolution, Republic, and Empire. Account run by @historywithjen
1783
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1783 - 12 October
Napoleon wrote:
My dear father: Your letter, as you may well imagine, gave me little enough pleasure; but as your return to Corsica is necessitated by your illness and by that of a family that is so near to me, I can but approve and must try to console myself
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'Conceal from me none of your wants, suppress no complaints you have to make of your superiors. I am here to do justice to all, and the weaker party is especially entitled to my protection.’
- Napoleon to the 17th Demi-Brigade
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“If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.”
- Napoleon
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1779 - 3 April
Napoleon said goodbye to his father and would not see him again for three years.
At Brienne he was among 110 pupils taught at the military academy administered by the Mimim order of Franciscan monks. Students slept on straw mattresses with a single blanket.
1779 - 3 April
Napoleon said goodbye to his father and would not see him again for three years.
At Brienne he was among 110 pupils taught at the military academy administered by the Mimim order of Franciscan monks. Students slept on straw mattresses with a single blanket.
Napoleon later wrote:
'I entered Brienne, and was happy. My mind was beginning to work; I was anxious to learn, to know, to get on; I devoured books. I soon became the talk of the school. I was admired, envied; I was conscious of my powers; I enjoyed my superiority.'
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1779 - 1 January: Napoleon and his brother Joseph enter the school at Autun. Napoleon changes his first name to Napoléon from 'Napoleone' but retains Buonaparte.
2 April: Napoleon enters the military school at Brienne.
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A page dedicated to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte and the history of the French Revolution, Republic, and Empire!
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1769 - 15 August:
At midday during the Feast of the Assumption, the 18 year old Letizia Bonaparte was attending mass at Ajaccio Cathedral when sudden labour pains struck.
She rushed home and, before she could reach her bedroom, gave birth to her second son, 𝐍𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐧!
