Napoleon Bonaparte: Born Corsican, Not French, and Nearly British
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Born Corsican, Not French, and Nearly British

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on Corsica just one year after France acquired it, spoke French with a foreign accent his whole life, and came within a bureaucratic technicality of never qualifying for a French military education — yet he crowned himself Emperor of the French. The post Napoleon Bonaparte: Born Corsican, Not French, and Nearly British appeared first on History Collection.