Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II.

CHAPTER I.

_Corsica--Family of Buonaparte--Napoleon born 15th August, 1769--His early habits--Sent to the Royal Military School at Brienne--His great Progress in Mathematical Science--Deficiency in Classical Literature--Anecdotes--Removed to the General School of Paris--When in his Seventeenth Year, appointed Second Lieutenant of Artillery--His early Politics--Promoted to a Captainc...