Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon was excited about his future. Still, he was apprehensive. He had never left the island before, and he didn’t know how to speak French. So before he could further his training, he would have to learn the language. To do this his parents were sending him first to a school in Autun in southern France. There the students were mean, they had laughed at his Corsican accent and mocked his poor clothes and rough manners. When Napoleon had learned to speak French fluently, he went to study at Brienne, it a training school for the Military College in Paris.

He found that the students there were even crueler. They looked down on him because he was of Corsican nobility. Taunting Napoleon, they called him a "slave" because his home had been conquered by the French.
Napoleon was very ...

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program usually took two to three years.

At sixteen he graduated with the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to an artillery unit. Napoleon had specialized in artillery at the Military College, because he understood its importance in warfare and wanted to learn how cannons could most effectively be used in battles.

During the next few years he devoted himself to reading about military science, history, and political theory. Napoleon was garrisoned in various cities in France, but he also spent much of his time in Corsica. When he was on military duty he often worked from four o’clock in the morning until ten at night. ...

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