#384 | Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleon Bonabarte's Life and Times
From an early age, Napoleon was pro-Corsican independence. He wanted his homeland to be liberated from its French oppressors as he saw them. His first political ambition in life was not becoming the emperor of France or European domination,. It was the liberation of Corsica from the French. As you might imagine, this didn't make him particularly popular in his homeland and he had to flee from the island, seeking refuge in France. And it would be in France, during the period known as the French Revolutionary Wars, that he would make his name.
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