Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) was emperor of France. He was born in 1769 at Ajaccio in Corsica and died in 1821. He was sent to the military school of Brienne in Champagne in 1779, and in 1784 to that of Paris. In 1785 he was appointed junior lieutenant in the army. He was in Aris on June the 20th 1792 and saw the mob invade the Tuileries. He also witnessed the overthrow of the monarchy on August the 10th. In 1799 he overthrew the Directory and appointed himself dictator. He became emperor in 1804 and reigned until 1815. From 1803 he conquered most of Europe. He was finally overthrown following his defeat at Waterloo at the hands of Wellington's army and was exiled on the Island of St Helena where he died after a seven month period of slow arsenic poisoning by a secret agent of the Bourbon's, posing as one of his most trusted entourage. At the time his death was recorded as being of cancer, and it was not until 1952 that a Swedish dentist discovered the truth from forming a theory and having some of Napoleon's hair samples analysed. Research Napoleon Bonaparte
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