Napolean Bonaparte
aka Daniel S.

Hello, I am Napoleon Bonaparte the almighty emperor of France and the commander of her armies. I am from Ajaccio, Corsica. Corsica is a French island off the eastern coast of Italy. I was born on August 15, 1769. I was the second son of eight children.

My family and I lived in a beautiful house in Ajaccio. My father, Carlo Bonaparte, was a lawyer in the French court in Ajaccio. Letizia, my mother retired at a young age. The names of my brothers and sisters are Joseph, who was the oldest, Lucien, Maria, Louis, Paoletta, Maria, and the youngest, Giralamo. As a child, I was interested in mathematics and artillery. Later, at the age of nine, I went to military school in France. I excelled at math and later went to the Advanced Military School.

In my early military career I rose in the ranks of the French Army quickly. At age 24 I was given the astonishing rank of Brigadier General. My first victories were against the Austrian Empire over control of the Italian peninsula, which I later made part of my empire. After I crowned myself Emperor of France in 1804, I immediately began my conquest of Europe. With the spirit of the French Revolution driving my men, we won countless battles against the four major powers of Europe. In 1808, I sent a large force to conquer Spain, but they were defeated.

After overthrowing the Directory, which was the French government at the time, I became the leader of France. My goal was to invade Britain, but their navy was too powerful, so I decided to invade Egypt. In the Battle of the Pyramids, my men shot off the nose of the Sphinx while target practicing. I invented a new method of fighting battles when I was able to maneuver larger armies on the battlefield who were very mobile because they carried no supplies. This was one of the reasons why I was able to defeat the best armies in Europe. I went on to conquer most of western and central Europe, but I was eventually ..... defeated.

My downfall began when I lead an army of 600,000 untrained soldiers into Russia during winter. My army carried no supplies because we lived off the land, which caused many to die of starvation and cold. Also, the retreating Russian army burnt many shelters so that my army could not use them to stay out of the awful Russian winter. I decided to retreat to France, but on the way back hundreds of thousands of my men died. When I returned to France, I had only 40,000. Almost immediately after, a combined Russian and Prussian army entered Paris; I was forced to give up my throne. Next, I was exiled to Elba Island of the coast of Italy, but I returned to France a year later. I stayed in France for exactly 100 days where all I managed to do was lose to the British and the Prussians at the Battle of Waterloo. After the battle, I was exiled again to St. Helena, a very tiny island that was a very long way away from land. I died of a stomach cancer on May 5th 1821.

I modeled myself after a politician by the name of Marcus Porcius Cato, or Cato the Younger. He was a well known politician and statesman that lived during the late Roman Republic. He was known for his stubbornness his moral principles and temper. I lived my life on some of his sayings such as, "I would not beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny." Two of his qualities were his roughness and inflexibility. He seldom smiled or laughed. He also had great memory and was slow to be persuaded. These were some of my qualities I was known for, some of them served me well others led to my demise.

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