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Napoleonic War Collection.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
£11.50p.
| Brief biography 1769 -
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte was born to a humble family on the poor island of Corsica. By 1804, he was Emperor of France, and came to control the greater part of Western Europe, bringing modernising reforms in the name of the ideals of the French Revolution - "liberty, fraternity, equality." In 1812 his failed invasion of
Russia brought disaster. Enemies united against him, and by 1814 his Empire
was destroyed. He died in exile - but his ideas lived on.
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