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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Canvas.
Onward.
Flirt.
Bushy.
We will have to canvas the history and archives of many countries to move onward to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte who had flirted with the idea of conquering Corsica after it had been sold to the French by the Genoese Republic on May 15, 1767. His was a long line of small time nobles from Florence who had picked the wrong side to back in the Italian battles between the Pope's supporters (Guelphs) and those of the Holly Roman Empire (Ghibellines) and been forced to live Florence and then moving to Ajaccio, Corsica in 1520.
You can get an idea of this place where the Bonapartes had made their home from this travel adventure. Corsica by rail: A one-day taster
From above linked article. |
Pasquale Paoli (Corsican statesman) -- Encyclopedia Britannica
http://pollenhaus.com/UMB/HIS112/prologue.html
The Bonapartes were forced to flee Corsica in mass when Napoleon's
array of
giant or
formal and informal alliances and family missteps with them began in earnest with his 18 year old brother Lucien's hot headed attacks on Pasquale Paoli a Corsican patriot and long time hero of Napaleon Bonaparte. His family would often get Napoleon into political bogs much like he would actually find in the
marshy Egyptian campaign.
http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/s...palestine.html