
Few men in the history have had as great an influence on the world and the times in which they lived as Napoleon Bonaparte.
He was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio on the island of Corsica. when he was a boy, he identified himself with the great heroes of ancient history whom he read about. He was barely sixteen years old when he graduated from the military academy in Paris.
When he was just twenty-four years old, he was...