Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pasquale Paoli entered the world on the 6th of April 1725 in Stretta, a small hamlet within the Morosaglia commune. He grew up amidst vendetta-driven violence that plagued Corsica for generations before his family fled into exile in Naples in 1739.
Representatives from sixty-eight ancient administrative units gathered at Corte to ratify a new constitution in November 1755 which proclaimed Corsica sovereign independent from Genoa while establishing a representative democracy. Linda Colley later credited him with writing history's first written constitution for any nation state.
Pasquale Paoli died on the 5th of February 1807 and was initially buried within Old St Pancras Churchyard in London. His name appears listed among important graves lost on Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial installed in 1879 before his bones were transported back to Corsica in 1889.
Napoleon denounced Paoli before French authorities after an attack on La Maddalena Island failed because defenders knew strike locations beforehand and commander Pietro Paolo Colonna-Cesari took no appropriate action. Royalists combined with Paolists drove the Bonapartes off the island entirely leading to arrest warrants sent directly to Corsica.
Admiral Samuel Hood arrived with fleet shortly after 1793 establishing a brief period known as Anglo-Corsican Kingdom under George III sovereignty. He exerted force through events including the Siege of Calvi while Corsica became protectorate chiefly through his fleet's actions.