Treaty of Campo Formio, 1797: Napoleon led the French army to victory over the better equipped and larger armies of Austria. Napoleon fought in the French revolutionary wars and against other European monarchies since 1792. He was promoted to the rank of major general as a result. He rose through the ranks in the military during the French Revolution by suppressing the uprisings against the revolutionary government. Though he was a staunch supporter of Corsican nationalism, he eventually embraced the ideals of the French revolution which started in 1789 when he joined the Jacobins, the pro-French Corsican Republicans.
He graduated from military school in 1785 and was commissioned as the second lieutenant of an artillery detachment in the French army.
This made him well acquainted with history and geography. He was bullied as a child by his peers and hence spent a lot of time alone with books. He completed his schooling in the mainland of France later joined the military academy. Napoleon was born on 15 th august 1769 on the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea after its annexation by the Kingdom of France.
