History makes me sad ):
*drinks tears* "hm... salty... there a tax for that"
Napoleon was born to petty nobility--not rich, he was sent to military school as a boy to earn a commission in the royal army because the family property was too small to support him and his brothers. He was an army captain on duty in Corsica when Louis XVI was beheaded in January 1793.
Alexander inherited a Greek army that regularly beat the stuffing out of the Persians and used it to conquer Persia. Napoleon was the most famous of a group of generals who built up a new kind of army made up of citizen volunteers and amazingly routed armies of seasoned professionals.
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