Napoleon Bonaparte, the soldier who made himself Emperor of the French and defined early 19th-century Europe through the Napoleonic Wars. BBC History Revealed charts the ups and downs of the great conqueror, who was born a Corsican outsider but rose to become Europe's greatest military mind
The victory helped cement Napoleon's power as first consul. Additionally, with the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, the war-weary British agreed to peace with the French (although the peace would only last for a year). Napoleon worked to restore stability to post-revolutionary France.
