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Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general and statesman who was Emperor of the French from the 18th of May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815. He rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led campaigns across Europe and the Middle East. He is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.
Napoleon was born on the 15th of August 1769 on the island of Corsica, in the Maison Bonaparte in Ajaccio. His family was of Italian origin, and he was baptized as Napoleone di Buonaparte. Corsica had been ceded by the Republic of Genoa to France one year before his birth.
Napoleon died on the 5th of May 1821 at age 51, in exile on the remote island of Saint Helena. Autopsy reports by Antommarchi and the British, and a later 2021 study by gastrointestinal pathologists, concluded he died of stomach cancer, the disease that had killed his father. In 1861 his remains were entombed in a sarcophagus under the dome at Les Invalides in Paris.
The Napoleonic Code is the body of legal and administrative reforms Napoleon enacted in France and Western Europe, his most notable legacy. He established public education, abolished the vestiges of feudalism, emancipated Jews and other religious minorities, abolished the Spanish Inquisition, and enacted equality before the law for an emerging middle class.
Napoleon remains controversial because of his role in wars that devastated Europe, his looting of conquered territories, and his mixed record on civil rights. He abolished the free press, ended directly elected representative government, reinstated slavery in French colonies in May 1802, banned the entry of black people and mulattos into France, and reduced the civil rights of women and children.
At the Battle of Waterloo on the 18th of June 1815, Wellington's army held against French attacks until Blucher's Prussians arrived on Napoleon's right flank and broke his lines. Napoleon was first exiled to Elba in 1814, escaped in February 1815, and after Waterloo was exiled to Saint Helena, 1,870 kilometres from the west coast of Africa.