the painting - the portrait of napoleon bonaparte.

A military leader and the first emperor of France after the revolution that overthrew the monarchy in 1789. He was able to unite large parts of Europe by force, but he suffered successive defeats, the last of which was the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, after which he took refuge with the British forces, which exiled him to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. He died there six years later, at the age of 51. Birth and upbringing Napoleon was born in 1769 in the city of Ajaccio on the island of Corsica, after France took over that island from the Italian Principality of Genoa. He was the fourth member of his Corsican family. At the age of nine, Napoleon traveled to France and joined the Military Academy in Brienne with the help of Count Marbef, ruler of Corsica. At that time, the academy was restricted to children of the aristocracy, and Napoleon found himself a discordant among them due to his financial level and his distinctive Italian accent. He devoted most of his time to reading, and was very int