DESTINY chapter IV " Toulon"

Toulon Fort St Louis

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Bonaparte no longer had the right to live in Corsica, he had been given a death sentence by his own people. His idealism has shaken He wrote to his brother, among so many conflicting ideas the honest man is confused and distressed. "Since one must take side and one must choose which is victorious. Considering the alternative it is better to eat than be eaten". The defeat in Corsica, the break from his hero Paoli had toughened him, made him shrewd and turn him toward France. From the time he had this break up with Paoli's Corsica he is French, he want to be French.

On June 10, 1793 he set sail for France with his widowed mother, three brothers and three sisters – a refugee family carrying with them all they owned in the world. Twenty-four years old, he was banished from the land of his birth forever.

Bonaparte returned to France to find the French is fighting among themselves. The king had been executed the queen and thousand more followed him to the guillotine. The city is in revolt and uprising in the provinces Maximilien Robespierre was in charge now. He suspended the constitution, bow to save the Republic from his enemies by any cause. The revolution turned into the terror.

Torned by civil war France was also at war with almost all with Europe, Austria, Spain, Prussia (Germany), and Great Britain, are bend to destroy the new French republic. While French radicals promised all people to rises against their rulers. Reinstated in the army as a captain Bonaparte was ordered to Toulon a city of 28 thousand people in the southern cost of France, who has rebelled against the Republic throwing its port open to the English. The British fleet defended the city from the harbor. The 28 year old Bonaparte knew how to drive them out. He argued, if his soldier seized the heights commanding the harbor they can bombared the fleet, drive them away and the city will fall. It was a simple plan but none of the generals would listen.

The generals in Toulon are totally unconfidence or little worst. Finally one confident general showed up and listen to Napoleon plans and said naturally. This could be Bonaparte first great chance. With the aristocratic fleeing the country there was suddenly a vacuum, an opportunity of rapid promotion of soldiers who can proved themselves under fire. Bonaparte fought bravely leading his men assaulted the fort guarding the heights. He Suffered a wound in the tight from the enemy bayonet. Ten ships went up in flames and the British fled. Toulon is recaptured and Bonaparte is promoted. In just three months he has risen from captain to Brigadier general.....click here to continue.

DESTINY chapter V
"canon"