Returning to France, Napoleon took part in a coup against the government and then became first consul in February 1800.
By 1799 France was at war with most of Europe. Proposing an aggressive approach by attacking Britain’s territories en route to India, Napoleon led the invasion of Egypt in 1798.
As a young soldier, he supported the radical ideals of the French Revolution and rose rapidly through the ranks of the French army. The First Rise and Fallīorn on the island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte possessed furious intelligence and relentless ambition.
