Napoleon

Life and beginnings

Napoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleone di Buonaparte on August 15, 1769, and died on May 5, 1821. He was born on Corsica to a family of Italian origin, moved to mainland France in 1779, and was commissioned in the French Royal Army in 1785. He supported the Revolution in 1789 and promoted it in Corsica. The rise the biography names next is military: the siege of Toulon in 1793, the defeat of royalist insurgents in Paris on 13 Vendémiaire in 1795, command in Italy in 1796, and the invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798. The guide starts from the same island and the same rapid rise, and it calls him one of history’s most infamous leaders. Infamy is the guide’s adjective. The dates are the biography’s.^{[1] [4]}

The published Lafayette essay is another officer of these years, not this artillery career and not the consul of 1799. The link is there so the two men are not folded into one revolutionary commander.^{[1] [4]}

Defining achievements

The Coup of 18 Brumaire, on 9 November 1799, which was 18 Brumaire of Year VIII, brought him to power as First Consul. The page calls it bloodless, says it overthrew the Directory, and says that in the view of most historians it ended the French Revolution and would soon lead to his coronation. The guide says a coup made him First Consul in 1799 and that four years later he crowned himself emperor. The biography is more exact about the crown. He was Emperor of the French from May 18, 1804, until the abdication of 1814, and the same lead says that in December 1804 he crowned himself. “Four years later” is the guide’s phrase. May 1804 is four and a half years after November 1799. This essay keeps the biography’s two 1804 dates and does not correct the guide into a single day.^{[1] [3] [4]}

The code is not the agenda. The Civil Code of the French, the Napoleonic Code, was established during the Consulate in 1804 and is still in force, heavily amended. Napoleon was not directly involved in the drafting. A commission of four jurists wrote it. He chaired many of the commission’s plenary sessions, and his support was crucial to enactment. The guide names an agenda Napoleonic Code and uses it to compare the smallest standing army with the largest standing navy. That comparison is a relationship rule. It is not the civil code, and it is not the commission of four.^{[2] [4]}

In 1803 he sold Louisiana to the United States. That sale is a transaction in the biography. It is not the Continental System, and it is not the invasion of Russia.^[1]

Legacy and interpretation

The Continental System is in the biography, not only in the guide. After a victory he imposed its first elements by the Berlin Decree of November 1806. It prohibited European nations from trading with Britain, and it was widely violated. The guide says he established the system to revitalize France and weaken enemies. The biography’s sentence is a decree and a prohibition that did not hold. A trade grievance in the game is not that decree.^{[1] [4]}

The wars are the rest of the lead, and this essay will not replay each coalition. What the lead does fix is the shape: Austerlitz and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, the defeat of Prussia at Jena–Auerstedt in 1806, Friedland in 1807, Joseph Bonaparte placed on the Spanish throne in 1808, Wagram in 1809, and the invasion of Russia in 1812, the occupation of Moscow, and the winter retreat. The first abdication was in 1814. The Hundred Days restored him in 1815. A Seventh Coalition defeated him at Waterloo in June 1815. He was exiled to Saint Helena and died there of stomach cancer in 1821, aged 51.^[1]

A closer look

The guide splits one life into two personas, and the split is not a second historical person. Emperor tells the consul, the crown, the Continental System, and wars from Spain to Russia. Revolutionary tells the artilleryman of the Revolution, the same coup, the same crown, and artillery. Both introductions crown him. The revolutionary persona is not a youth who never became emperor. Unlock rules are also not a chronology. The Emperor persona is obtained by linking a free 2K account to the platform account used to play Civilization VII. The Revolutionary persona requires that same account to be linked to the platform accounts used to play both Civilization VI and Civilization VII. The account is free to create. The page does not call either persona base game, and it does not call either a DLC pack. The catalog therefore has no edition chip that matches the sentence, and the availability fact stays unconfirmed for that reason. The 2K rule is still stated here, because the page states it.^{[4] [5]}

La Grande Armée is the revolutionary ability’s name. The biography uses that army’s name for the march into eastern Europe and the retreat from Russia. Movement for every land unit, and culture taken from a defeated unit’s strength, are game effects. They are not the winter of 1812.^{[1] [4]}

In Civilization VII

The English guide names two personas and no third. Emperor’s ability is Empereur des Français and its agenda is Napoleonic Code. Revolutionary’s ability is La Grande Armée and its agenda is Culture from Conquest. The simplified Chinese guide names the same two personas, abilities, and agendas in its own words. Yields, grievances, and percentages stay on the guide. They are not copied here. Both personas belong in this one article. Neither is a separate life, and neither is Lafayette.^{[4] [5]}

The page does not identify a base-game or DLC edition. It identifies a linked 2K account, with a stricter link for the Revolutionary persona. The codex leaves the catalog source unconfirmed and prints the account rule beside that gap. The published French Empire essay is the revolution, the later republic, and the tower. The published Lafayette essay is a different officer, not this consul. The published Bolívar essay is the independence leader of the Spanish American wars, not this emperor. The first step back from the two personas is to keep 9 November 1799, May and December 1804, the Berlin Decree of 1806, and Waterloo in June 1815 in that order.^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}