Early Life

• Military Campaigns:

• Italy, 1796-1797; defeats Austria

• Egypt, 1797; army defeated by Britain’s Lord Nelson

• Marriage to Josephine, 1796

• Gains control over France’s Directory government, (1795-1799)

• Declares himself First Consul for life

• 1804: Declares himself Emperor

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