Napoleon Bonaparte - A slayer of the Revolution

The French Revolution was fought for the equality, liberty and fraternity of the third social class in France. These ideas were carried on into the post revolutionary era of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte was a product of the Revolution, for if it were not for the revolution, he would not have gained any major military and political opportunities like he had been given. Liberty, equality and fraternity became some of the most important principles of …

…his ambitions. Napoleon was a military genius but it stops there. He claimed to have kept alive the principles of the revolution but he only oppressed them. Equality, liberty and fraternity were principles that became broken during his rein. Napoleon was a driven man who was never satisfied. For years we went from victory to victory, but in the end of his reign, he was destroyed by his own restless ambition to take over Europe.