Napoleon I of France (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)

Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt], Italian: Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 16 January 1830), a military and political leader of Revolutionary France, and the first Emperor of the French, whose actions have shaped the world to this present day.

Born on the island of Corsica to a minor Italian noble family, Napoleon was sent to France to train as an artillery officer in the French Army, and was considered a capable and intelligent officer, who gained prominence in the French Republican Army, and led very successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions that were fighting then against France. In 1799, he staged a Coup d'etat and installed himself as the First Consul of the Republic, and in 1804, was crowned the Emperor of the French. He managed to defeat every other power on the continent, and humbled England in the Battle of Trafalgar, and  Austria and  Russia in the Battle of Austerlitz, and