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Guidance to Freedom or Just Another Tyrant?When most people theorize of Napoleon Bonaparte they think of either a tyrant emperor or a brilliant war strategist. Maybe both are right but in whatever conclusion any person comes to, they will know he was a small man who accomplished many great things. Napoleon conquered countries and developed a mass empire, which led to his celebrity like fame. He was a man that respected cultures and every religion and even cried when his men died on the battlefield. Bonaparte was an dread(a) person who drove himself with great ambition to become one of the greatest attractions ever in history. In life every great leader has had their own story to tell. Napoleon was born a Corsican, at Ajaccio, in 1769. He had seven brothers and sisters and he was also a descendent from the Florentine nobility. He moved to France and started school at the age of nine. At school he was picked on because of his Italian accent and because of his influent French. Whe n he turned sixteen he joined the French artillery and became a lieutenant in a short period of time. Napoleon spent the next seven years translation the works of philosophers and educating himself in military matters, by studying the campaigns of great military leaders of the past. He then became a general and then in 1795 was nominate to stop an uprising in Paris and seceded in doing so. After stopping the uprising he was then given the position of commander in captain of the interior French army in Italy. In 1799 he was elected as the First Consul of France because the people were sick of the directory. He rose up in power in the military and also politically. He then formed his own empire and won many battles with his brilliance. Bonaparte was an intelligent man with an extrodinary memory, man staying very open minded toward other peoples beliefs. As Vox states When he had an hour for diversion, he not infrequently employed it in looking over a book of logarithms . So retent ive was his memory of numbers, that sums over which he had once glanced his eye were in his mind ever aft(prenominal) (69). If I lived in his empire I would at least respect Napoleon for his brilliance, his ability to memorize information, and his will to learn more. Although, Napoleon still had his flaws. He was still only human ... ...gh his extremely successful Italian campaigns, his revolutionary changes in the French government and battles against the Third Coalition Napoleon gave France total command over Western Europe. France then became a great nation because of Napoleons brilliance and achievements as a leader.Works CitiedBlair, Victor. Napoleon, The Man, Encapsulated. 10 Dec. 2002 Britt, Alber Sidney. The Wars of Napoleon. New island of Jersey Avery Publishing Group Inc., 1985Holtman, Robert. Napoleonic Propaganda. New York Greenwood Press Publishers, 1969Holtman, Robert. The Napoleonic Revolution. New York J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967Markham, Felix. Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe. London The English Universities Press Ltd., 1954Miller, Tom. Before Brumaire Napoleons Development as a Ruler. 10 Dec. 2002 Naylor, John. Waterloo. London Pan Books Ltd., 1960Vance, Thomas. The Lost Voices of Napoleonic Historians. 10 Dec. 2002 Vox, Maximilien. Napoleon. New York Grove Press Inc., 1960