Napoleon Bonaparte, who is also known as the 'little Corsican', was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. His original name was Napoleone. He had 7 brothers and sisters and his original nationality was Corsican-Italian. He also despised the French and thought they were oppressors of his native land. His father was a lawyer, and was also anti-French. One reason Napoleon may have been such an excellent conqueror was that he was raised in a family of radicals. When Napoleon was nine, his dad sent him to a French military government school where he was constantly teased by the French students for he was small and physically weak. It is because of this that Napoleon is believed to have had dreams of personal glory and triumph (an intriguing foreshadow of what was to become of him!).…
