Napoleon and Pauli, who was now a dictator, had a serious political disagreement. Before leaving for France in January 1790, Napoleon persuaded Ajaccio's Jacques Club to write a letter of complaint to the city's useless representative in the National Assembly. Pauli flew into a rage, Napoleon recalled. We hadn't spoken for a long time.
Ever since Napoleon left the Royal Military Academy and came to Valence, he had been living the simplest life in the army. He had to support his thirteen-year-old brother, Louis, who was now with him, and send money to his mother. The rest of the money was spent on books and stationery. As for three meals a day, bread and cheese were enough. No wonder Laura Permon was so anxious to find that he looked paler and thinner than ever. However, this did not prevent Napoleon from participating in the essay competition entitled "On the Truth and Sentiments that are indispensable for the Happiness of Mankind." This was the last time he would spend his precious time on a philosophical adventure. He was no longer obsessed with theories. He had completely left his youth.
On September 10, 1791, Lieutenant Napoleon (who had been promoted in June) returned to Corsica for the fourth time in five years, this time to support Joseph's election for a member of the Council. In the absence of Pauli's support, Joseph was completely defeated by Charles Andrew Pozo Diborgo, whose family had always been tenants of the third floor of the Bonaparte mansion in Ajaccio. Napoleon would never forgive or forget this betrayal.
The Bonaparte family still lived in Ajaccio, though the side walls had been painted in the unusual black-and-white color that some in Corsica approved and others disliked. There were still parties in Corsica that sympathized with the French Revolution, and Pauli was increasingly supporting a growing faction that advocated complete independence from France and England, and opposed all clerics loyal to the Bourbon Dynasty. The recent developments in France did not help Corsica either: In June, he was arrested. In September, the Constitution Assembly was dissolved and the Parliament was established. In August, Austria declared war on France, followed by a national war mobilization.
Napoleon felt that the situation in Corsica clearly needed a William Tell. Although the anti-church measures taken by the revolutionary government in Paris, including the closure of the monastery on the island, angered many supporters of the French Revolution and alienated the Self-Defense Forces and the Revolutionary Party, causing the support of the French Revolution to be strongly opposed everywhere, he still successfully pulled votes and became the lieutenant colonel and deputy commander of the National Self-Defense Forces. The result was a scuffle and conflict, which culminated in the unsuccessful attempt by Napoleon and the National Guard to seize the Ajaccio Castle, where the French garrison was stationed, in May 1792.
Napoleon had completely misjudged the situation, and as a result, he had set himself on fire. Almost everyone was against him now. Pauli (recently appointed by Paris as the commander and governor of Corsica's city defense), the French garrison, and most of the Ajaccio residents who supported the church, what they needed now was peace. Everywhere they went, they could hear that Napoleon was the culprit. At the same time, to complicate matters, Napoleon forgot that his leave ended in December and that he was supposed to return to his post on January 1, 1792. He did not remember to ask for an extension of his leave, and was thus put on the list of people who had left their posts without permission, and his name was later removed from the list of active personnel by the Minister of War. For all the chaos that Napoleon had caused in Ajaccio in the past few months, Joseph could only thank the heavens when he boarded his ship and left in May 1792.
On May 28, Napoleon returned to Paris and immediately ran around to save his position in the army. At the same time, he forged political connections and frequently attended meetings of the Assembly. After several weeks of political activities, not only did Napoleon get all the charges against him dismissed, but he also returned to the Artillery Corps and was promoted to captain.
Throughout the summer of 1792, Napoleon and his schoolmate at the Brienne Military Academy, Louis de Brenner, witnessed strange events in Paris, including the public assaulting the palace on June 20th and August 10th to humiliate Louis Sixteen and slaughter his Swiss guards. Napoleon had witnessed these events with his own eyes in the shop run by Bresne's brother opposite the Tuileries. Seeing thousands of murderous Paris people fighting in the palace, he felt angry and helpless. Experience had made him more and more absolutely afraid of and distant from the people, and he had done so to the end of his life.
These bloody incidents also made Napoleon more eager than ever to obtain a higher status and command. To this end, he trudged to Place de la Revolution to ask for the position of Lieutenant Colonel of the French Navy, Gaspar Monge, the new Navy Minister. Due to the troubled times, Meng Ri, who was originally willing to help others, did not agree to his request. After a long period of absence, Captain Napoleon finally returned to the First Artillery Regiment of Valence. He immediately applied for leave again, on the grounds that his little sister Elisa's boarding school, St. Crea, had been closed due to the revolution, and he had to escort her back to Corsica.
Although Napoleon had often taken leave in the past few years, his request was granted. On October 5, 1792, he took Elisa back to Corsica by boat. He never thought that this would be the last time he would return home as a passionate patriot. Although he had a lot of disagreements with Pauli in the past, he still restored his position as a lieutenant colonel in the Corsica National Guard and became a lieutenant general under Pauli's orders. After France successfully captured Sava and Nice, Napoleon participated in the campaign against the Madalena Islands of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
On February 23rd, 1793, the Corsican fleet easily captured the small island of St. Stefano near the Maddalena Islands, disrupting Saldean's defensive deployment. Just as they were about to expand their victory, the commander of the expeditionary army suddenly became timid and ordered Napoleon to stop the attack and board the ship to return to Corsica. This was Napoleon's first battle.
At the same time, in Toulon, the eighteen-year-old Francophile Lucien Bonaparte was preparing for an even greater defeat. He had denounced Pauli at the Toulon's Jacques Club as a traitor who intended to hand over Corsica to the British. The Jacob Party believed this malicious accusation and sent the secret report to the National Convention in Paris, and the National Convention shook out the young Corsica's accusation. There was a clamor in the dignified building of the National Convention, and then a vote was taken to arrest Governor Pauli and his representative in the Convention, as well as Bozo Diborgo. Although Paris sent troops to Corsica to carry out this order, the whole island was still in a movement against the rebellious Bonaparte. The people surrounded and attacked the Napoleon residence in Ajaccio.
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