Napoleon & Europe. (the influence of Napoleon on Europe)(Cover Story)

From: History Today | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: Black, Jeremy | Copyright information

Napoleon was both the preeminent military leader of his era and a statesman motivated to lift France to the status of a great nation. The peak period of his influence was during his thirties. Napoleon was the central figure of Europe's most influential century.

Napoleon Bonaparte was the greatest general of his day, but he was more than a great warrior. He was also a statesman concerned to make France a great and modern state, a dynast ambitious to make the Bonapartes the leadin...

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