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Lockhart was a Contributor to "Blackwood," and Editor of the "Quarterly
Review" from 1825 to 1853.




LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE




CHAPTER I

Birth and Parentage of Napoleon Buonaparte--His Education at
Brienne and at Paris--His Character at this Period--His Political
Predilections--He enters the Army as Second Lieutenant of
Artillery--His First Military Service in Corsica in 1793.


Napoleon Buonaparte was born at Ajaccio on the 15th of August, 1769. The
family had been of some distinction, during the middle ages, in Italy;