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date: 22 June 2025

Napoleon I, Emperor of France (Napoleon Bonaparte) (1769–1821) 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to Military History
Author(s):

David Gates,

Richard Holmes

(see also Napoleonic wars). Born Napoleone Buonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica, the second son of an impecunious lawyer, Napoleon ...

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