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he decided to get married to Joshephine de Beauharnais from Martinique in the Indies. After many years of marriage, Napoleon realized that his wife was getting older and he had no heirs, so in 1809 he divorced her to look for a younger bride. In 1810 he met and married Archduchess, Marie Louise the eighteen-year-old daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria. During their marriage Napoleon and his new wife conceived one child, a boy also named Napoleon.
Napoleon was a man known for his greatest powers and successes as a leader. One of the many successful things Napoleon did early in his life was develop a highly successful military strategy. His tragedy consisted of starting a battle with an enemy while holding his forces back. He would then look for the enemies weakest points and throw all his strength against that point. This newly developed strategy helped him to win many of his attacks such as his attack on and defeat in Italy against Austria and his battle and defeat in ...

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any barrier set in his way. He defeated many countries such as Austria, Russia, and Prussia. After each victory Napoleon continued to enlarge his empire.
In 1806 Napoleon began to feel very powerful and important, thinking everything would always go in his favor. That year he issued two decrees, the Berlin Decree and then the Milian Decree. He did not realize that both of these decrees were the beginning of his fall from power. In 1808 the Peninsular War broke out when Spain and Portugal rebelled against French rule. British troops joined the fight against France where tens of thousands of French soldiers died. This loss damaged Napoleon’s honor greatly. Napoleon then ...

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