![]() ![]() The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare in peace, he completely remade the laws of France and modernised her systems of education and administration. After seizing power in a coup d'état he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. ![]() Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of just twenty years from 1795 to 1815. ![]() The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback ![]()
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