Conquistadores
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Napoleon Bonaparte
He was born in France in 1769, when he became in the age of 25, Napoleon Bonaparte had been expelled from the army, was disgraced, despondent and suicidal for several things. One year later, he was the youngest general in France, and began winning victories with getting troops who were at the point of starvation. Napoleon was a former Jacobin. He was the son of poor nobles. Napoleon joined the Jacobins because, as he wrote in a letter to his brother.
Napoleon Bonaparte became France's foremost military leader. He drove the British out of France in 1793. Napoleon beat the Austrians in 1796. The Austrian Hapsburgs wanted the monarchs back. Napoleon failed in the fight against Egypt, but he kept news of the worst losses from reaching France. He sent people to study Egypt's history, and these people found the Rosetta Stone. Napoleon wanted to establish a base so that France could attack England and also attacks Africa and India.
Napoleon gained the love of the French people by proclaiming, after a victory at Austerlitz, that he would adopt the children of all the soldiers. He then ordered the state to pay for the children's support and education, arrange marriages for the girls, and find jobs for the boys; he let them all add Napoleon to their names.
Napoleon was a great Leader. He order, security, and efficiency-replaced liberty, equality, and fraternity as the slogans of the new regime. Napoleon was exiled from France and when they do that for the second time he died for cancer in Santa Elena, the 5 of may in 1821.
Caius Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was born in July 100 B.C in Sabura, Rome he died in the 44 B.C of March in Rome. In his early life he suffered the death of his father, then he leave Rome and he join to the army, the year pas and the death of Sila occurs, that was one of the reason to Julius Caesar to go back to Rome. Meanwhile he travel to Rome he was kidnapped from pirates, after that he get to Rome with resources and he need to buy a modest house, then he was elected to the military tribune.
After the comeback of Julius he married Pompeia that later they get divorced. In 63 BC, he ran for election to the post of Pontifex Maximus, chief priest of the Roman state religion. He ran against two powerful senators, and then he was in the command to govern Spain. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years. In 51 BC after the extension of the Roman territory to the English Channel make that Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain.
After the death of Crassus in 51 BC after the conclusion of the Gallic War the senate asks Julius Caesar to come back to Rome, he denide and that was the start of the civil war, from which he emerged as the unrivaled leader of
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