Napoleon was a well-known figure in the world who once set off an unprecedented storm in Europe and nearly unified the continent. Born on the island of Corsica, Napoleon experienced numerous battles on the path of his rise, eventually becoming the founder and ruler of the First Empire. In the end, however, he did not realize his desire to unify Europe and was exiled to an isolated island in the middle of the ocean.
Corsica is located in the Mediterranean Sea in southeastern France, 170 kilometers from the French mainland, with an overall area of more than 8,000 square kilometers, and a population of less than 400,000, making it one of the least populous provinces in France.
Historically, corsica was inhabited for a long time and had established its own small kingdom, but since then it has been constantly ruled by the Carthaginians, Romans, Italians, Genoese, etc.
In 1768, corsica rebelled against the rule of the Kingdom of Genoa, and the people of the island, under the leadership of their leader Pauli, expelled the Genoese and established an independent government of Corsica.
Genoa was powerless in the face of such a situation, but Genoa did not ignore it, but signed a treaty with France, selling Corsica to France. France made it a native province and established its rule over Corsica.
The inhabitants of the island became French, but they did not agree and constantly rebelled. The leader Pauli fled to England. And his lieutenant surrendered to the French, who was Napoleon's father.
Although Napoleon had become French, he had to liberate Corsica and drive out the French as much as he could, as Poly did, and he never considered himself a Frenchman.
Corsican and the French Chinese and customs are very different, so there is no sense of belonging, and because of the poverty and backwardness here, France does not care too much about here. In short, Corsica has long been accompanied by the independence movement. There were even assassinations from time to time, which made the French government brain-wrenching.
Napoleon was originally a staunch anti-French, and with the outbreak of the French Revolution, he also returned to Corsica in the hope of changing its fate. But at the same time, Pauly, Napoleon's childhood idol, also returned. The conflict between the two is becoming increasingly public. Napoleon was very dissatisfied with Pauli's reliance on the British, and gradually Napoleon became a fanatic of the French Revolution, a staunch pro-French faction. And he also took advantage of the volatile situation of the French Revolution.
Napoleon was no longer satisfied with thinking about the future of Corsica, and his ambitions grew, always thinking of dominating the whole of Europe, and for this reason, France went on a rampage in Europe. However, in the end, it fell in the cold of Russia. After Napoleon abdicated, he was exiled to Elba, a small island in the Mediterranean.
Elba, an island in the western sea of central Italy, covers an area of more than 200 square kilometers and has a population of more than 30,000, making it the third largest island in Italy, and is not far from Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon. However, he only stayed here for about a year, and then he left the island in the absence of the guards and returned to Paris to establish the Hundred Days Dynasty.
But in just over three months, Napoleon suffered the Waterloo of his life. This time, Napoleon's opponents learned their lesson, and the last time Elba was too close to France, it was conducive to Napoleon's escape. This time, he had to choose a desert island far from the mainland, far from France, to cut off any of his thoughts, and the isolated island of St. Helena, thousands of miles away, was undoubtedly the best choice. Napoleon also ended his life on the island of St. Helena.
The island of St. Helena covers an area of 121 square kilometers, which is not a small number of people, with a population of only a few thousand people. This island can be described as an isolated island on the sea, very far from the mainland.
The name St. Helena was coined by the Portuguese, as it is a religious holiday called St. Helena Day. As early as the beginning of the 16th century, the Portuguese came here, after all, near the water tower first got the moon, but there were no residents on the island, Portugal did not see its value, and finally became a British colony.