Cause he was a prick
He was an Army Officer who became the Emperor of France.
His dying words were "France, Army. Head of the Army. Josephine."
'France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Josephine'which translates to : "France, the Army, Head of the Army, Josephine." A nice set of priorities. (But then, Napoleon was a man driven to be France's greatest military leader.)
He was an Army Officer who became the Emperor of France.
He wasw a student and an Army officer.
He was a French Army Officer who became the Emperor of France/
He was an Army Officer who became the Emperor of France.
He was a student and then an Army officer.
He purchased the Louisiana territory from France!
Yes, the Prussian Army and their allied managed to encircle and defeat Napoleon III's main Army at Sedan, what led the Emperor to abdicate.
The campaign was successful, but the destruction of the French Fleet at Aboukir prevented Napoleon's army from receiving reinforcements and supplies from France, due to the activity of the British Fleet who dominated the Mediterranean. The vital communication with the mother country were limited to sporadic trips carried by some fast frigate which violated the blockade. The things worsened when in 1799 the Ottoman Empire declared war on France, and, though Napoleon succeeded in defeating or keeping at bay the new enemy, his army suffered losses that were not replaceable. This situation led Napoleon to abandon the enterprise going back to France aboard of a frigate and to the surrendering of the 30,000 French soldiers of his army, who could return to their homeland only after two years of suffering.
He was French, born in Corsica just after it was transferred from Genoa to France. (Corsica became part of France in 1768. Napoleon was born in 1769.) Since Corsica was part of France, Napoleon was a citizen of France. As a citizen he joined the army and began his rise to power and made his mark on the world.