Variant: All great events hang by a hair. Napoleon henceforth saw his opportunities as lying in France, rather than in Corsica. (1)ĭuring the night of June 10, the entire Bonaparte family fled from Corsica to Toulon. You have to take sides you might as well be on the one who is winning, on the one who devastates, plunders, burns in the alternative, it is better to eat than be eaten. Moreover, the active and restless spirit natural to the Corsicans is involved. In such a situation, good men become confused and moan the doubtful become bad. In any case, he maintains that France is lost and that he will soon have help from England. At the same time, he persuades people that the Commissioners have been abandoned by France and will receive no help, since the Convention has changed its mind. caresses, he threatens, he burns, he allows looting. In explaining why some Corsicans supported Paoli, Napoleon wrote: Napoleon wrote a memorandum on the political and military situation in which he put forward a plan for reconquering the island. In May, a French attempt to retake the city of Ajaccio failed and the Bonaparte house was ransacked by Paoli’s supporters. Napoleon had initially supported Paoli, but now he was committed to the cause of France. Though Corsica was a French province, most of the island was in the hands of an independence movement led by Pasquale Paoli. He was on Corsica, the island where he was born, which was in the midst of a civil war. Napoleon wrote this on June 1, 1793, when he was a 23-year-old captain in France’s 4th Artillery Regiment.

Napoleon in his study in 1807, by Paul Delaroche

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