拿破伦的英文简介

拿破伦的英文简介

Napoleon Hill (October 26,1883-November 8,1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.His most famous work,Think and Grow Rich,is one of the best-selling books of all time.
According to his official biographer,Hill was born into poverty in a two-room cabin in the town of Pound in rural Wise County,Virginia.His mother died when he was ten years old.His father remarried two years later.
At the age of thirteen he began writing as a "mountain reporter" for small-town newspapers.He used his earnings as a reporter to enter law school,but soon had to withdraw for financial reasons.The turning point in his career is considered to have been in 1908 with his assignment,as part of a series of biographies of famous men,to interview industrialist Andrew Carnegie,who at the time was one of the richest men in the world.Hill discovered that Carnegie believed that the process of success could be elaborated in a simple formula that could be duplicated by the average person.Impressed with Hill,Carnegie commissioned him (without pay and only offering to provide him with letters of reference) to interview over 500 successful men and women,many of them millionaires,in order to discover and publish this formula for success.
As part of his research,Hill interviewed many of the most famous people of the time,including Thomas Edison,Alexander Graham Bell,George Eastman,Henry Ford,Elmer Gates,John D.Rockefeller,Charles M.Schwab,F.W.Woolworth,William Wrigley Jr.,John Wanamaker,William Jennings Bryan,Theodore Roosevelt,William H.Taft,Woodrow Wilson,and Jennings Randolph.The project lasted over twenty years,during which Hill became an advisor to Carnegie.The formula for rags-to-riches success that Hill and Carnegie formulated was published initially in 1928 in his book The Law of Success.The formula was later published in home-study courses,including the seventeen-volume "Mental Dynamite" series until 1941.
From 1919 to 1920 Hill was the editor and publisher of Hill's Golden Rule magazine.In 1930 he published The Ladder to Success.From 1933 to 1936 Hill was an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt.
In 1937 Hill elaborated this success formula in his most famous work,Think and Grow Rich,which is still in print and has sold over thirty million copies.
In 1939 he published How to Sell Your Way through Life,and in 1953 How to Raise Your Own Salary.From 1952 to 1962 he worked with W.Clement Stone of the Combined Insurance Company of America to teach Stone's "Philosophy of Personal Achievement",and to lecture on the "Science of Success".Partly as a result of his work with Stone,in 1960 he published Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.He died in 1970 in South Carolina,and in 1971 his final work,You Can Work Your Own Miracles,was published posthumously.
The success formula is a concept that Napoleon studied extensively.Carnegie told Hill that the formula for success was so powerful,that if learning how to apply it was taught to students,the time they needed to spend in formal schooling could be cut in half.This formula,Carnegie repeated,was used by all the leading businessmen and inventors of the late 19th and early 20th century.Carnegie asked Hill to go out and confirm the application of the formula by the 500 richest Americans (and others).The formula can be summed up as "Whatever you give will come back to you",a common concept many businesses use today.Hill gave many examples in his book of the formula being used,in one case in the creation of the Unites States Steel Corporation which yielded a sum of $600,000,000 of new wealth in the early 1900's.
With only a third grade education,Carnegie became the most unbelievably rich man the world has ever seen.Carnegie was,by some estimates,100 times richer than Bill Gates (as a percentage of GNP of the United States economy at the time).Hill stated often in his book that "Whatever price you ask of life,life is willing to pay".
Hill and Carnegie spent a great deal of time in Hill's monumental work Think and Grow Rich discussing the life of inventor Thomas Edison.It was stated in the book that the great inventor personally put his stamp of approval on use of the success formula as being necessary for the attainment of all achievement,including riches.
Attempts to describe the Carnegie formula fill the literature and history of our world."Give and ye shall receive" is one early example."It is better to give than to receive" is another.
Master Mind
Hill is also credited with coining the phrase 'Master Mind' (more commonly,Mastermind).The 'Master Mind' may be defined as:"coordination of knowledge and effort in a spirit of harmony,between two or more people,for the attainment of a definite purpose." In Think and Grow Rich,Hill discusses his creation of Master Mind groups and how these groups could multiply an individual's brain power and continually motivate positive emotions

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Napoleon
born August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica
died May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island
Napoleon in His Study, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812; in the National …
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Napoleon
born August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica
died May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island
Napoleon in His Study, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812; in the National …
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Samuel H. Kress Collection; photograph, Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
French in full Napoléon Bonaparte , original Italian Napoleone Buonaparte , byname the Corsican or the Little Corporal , French byname Le Corse or Le Petit Caporal French general, first consul (1799–1804), and emperor of the French (1804–1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West. He revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the Napoleonic Code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived Concordat with the papacy.
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Napoleon's many reforms left a lasting mark on the institutions of France and of much of western Europe. But his driving passion was the military expansion of French dominion, and, though at his fall he left France little larger than it had been at the outbreak of the Revolution in 1789, he was almost unanimously revered during his lifetime and until the end of the Second Empire under his nephew Napoleon III as one of history's great heroes.
Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island's cession to France by the Genoese. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino. His father's family, of ancient Tuscan nobility, had emigrated to Corsica in the 16th century.
Carlo Buonaparte had married the beautiful and strong-willed Letizia when she was only 14 years old; they eventually had eight children to bring up in very difficult times. The French occupation of their native country was resisted by a number of Corsicans led by Pasquale Paoli. Carlo Buonaparte joined Paoli's party, but, when Paoli had to flee, Buonaparte came to terms with the French. Winning the protection of the governor of Corsica, he was appointed assessor for the judicial district of Ajaccio in 1771. In 1778 he obtained the admission of his two eldest sons, Joseph and Napoleon, to the Collège d'Autun.
A Corsican by birth, heredity, and childhood associations, Napoleon continued for some time after his arrival in Continental France to regard himself a foreigner; yet from age nine he was educated in France as other Frenchmen were. While the tendency to see in Napoleon a reincarnation of some 14th-century Italian condottiere is an overemphasis on one aspect of his character, he did, in fact, share neither the traditions nor the prejudices of his new country: remaining a Corsican in temperament, he was first and foremost, through both his education and his reading, a man of the 18th century.
Napoleon was educated at three schools: briefly at Autun, for five years at the military college of Brienne, and finally for one year at the military academy in Paris. It was during Napoleon's year in Paris that his father died of a stomach cancer in February 1785, leaving his family in straitened circumstances. Napoleon, although not the eldest son, assumed the position of head of the family before he was 16. In September he graduated from the military academy, ranking 42nd in a class of 58.
He was made second lieutenant of artillery in the regiment of La Fère, a kind of training school for young artillery officers. Garrisoned at Valence, Napoleon continued his education, reading much, in particular works on strategy and tactics. He also wrote Lettres sur la Corse (“Letters on Corsica”), in which he reveals his feeling for his native island. He went back to Corsica in September 1786 and did not rejoin his regiment until June 1788. By that time the agitation that was to culminate in the French Revolution had already begun. A reader of Voltaire and of Rousseau, Napoleon believed that a political change was imperative, but, as a career officer, he seems not to have seen any need for radical social reforms.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Emperor of France Napoleon I, one of the greatest military leaders in history, and emperor of France he conquered much of Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Emperor of France Napoleon I, one of the greatest military leaders in history, and emperor of France he conquered much of Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769 in Corsica into a gentry family. Educated at military school, he was rapidly promoted and in 1796, was made commander of the French army in Italy, where he forced Austria and its allies to make peace. In 1798, Napoleon conquered Ottoman-ruled Egypt in an attempt to strike at British trade routes with India. He was stranded when his fleet was destroyed by the British at the Battle of the Nile.
France now faced a new coalition - Austria and Russia had allied with Britain. Napoleon returned to Paris where the government was in crisis. In a coup d'etat in November 1799, Napoleon became first consul. In 1802, he was made consul for life and two years later, emperor. He oversaw the centralisation of government, the creation of the Bank of France, the reinstatement of Roman Catholicism as the state religion and law reform with the Code Napoleon.
In 1800, he defeated the Austrians at Marengo. He then negotiated a general European peace which established French power on the continent. In 1803 Britain resumed war with France, later joined by Russia and Austria. Britain inflicted a naval defeat on the French at Trafalgar (1805) so Napoleon abandoned plans to invade England and turned on the Austro-Russian forces, defeating them at Austerlitz later the same year. He gained much new territory, including annexation of Prussian lands which ostensibly gave him control of Europe. The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, Holland and Westphalia created, and over the next 5 years, Napoleon's relatives and loyalists were installed as leaders (in Holland, Westphalia, Italy, Naples, Spain and Sweden).
In 1810, he had his childless marriage to Josephine de Beauharnais annulled and married the daughter of the Austrian emperor in the hope of having an heir. A son, Napoleon, was born a year later.
The Peninsular War began in 1808. Costly French defeats over the next five years drained French military resources. Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 resulted in a disastrous retreat. The tide started to turn in favour of the allies and in March 1814, Paris fell. Napoleon went into exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba. In March 1815 he escaped and marched on the French capital. The Battle of Waterloo ended his brief reign. The British imprisoned him on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena where he died on 5 May 1821.

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Napoleon(拿破仑）
The French called Napoleon Bonaparte “a man of destiny.” A hero in France, Napoleon was hated elsewhere in Europe. Today, Napoleon is remembered as one...

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Napoleon(拿破仑）
The French called Napoleon Bonaparte “a man of destiny.” A hero in France, Napoleon was hated elsewhere in Europe. Today, Napoleon is remembered as one of the greatest military leaders of all time. He built an empire that covered much of Europe.
ARMY CAREER
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 on Corsica, an island in the Mediterranean Sea. At the age of 16, Napoleon chose a career in the French army.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
In 1789, a revolution began that rocked France. The king and queen were executed. Hungry working people demanded new freedoms. Revolutionary governments in France swept away old laws. They declared war on supporters of the former king. The French Revolution lasted until 1799.
RISING STAR
Napoleon first showed his military skill fighting for the French Revolution. In 1794, he captured the French city of Toulon, which supported rule by royalty. For this success, Napoleon was made a general at the age of 24. In 1795, Napoleon saved the revolutionary government from rioters in Paris, the capital.
From 1796 to 1797, Napoleon commanded the French army on the Italian-French border. While there, he managed to defeat bigger armies from Austria, France’s chief enemy of the day. Napoleon went on to invade Egypt in 1798. Napoleon’s victories enlarged France’s territory.
NAPOLEON RULES FRANCE
Napoleon returned to France as a hero. The French people had lost confidence in the revolutionary government. So Napoleon decided to seize control. In November 1799, Napoleon set up a new government with himself as leader.
Could Napoleon lead his country as well as he could command an army? At first, he was a great success.
Napoleon reorganized national and local government. He made new laws that upheld religious freedom and other rights of the people. He introduced fairer taxes and a new education system. From 1800 to 1802, he forced European countries that had joined together against France to agree to make peace.
In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France as Napoleon I. He paid top artists to portray him in proud, powerful poses.
WARS OF CONQUEST
France was now the strongest nation in Europe. But Napoleon wasn’t satisfied. Ruthless, restless, and always seeking glory, he dreamed of a mighty empire. Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia (north Germany) united to fight him.
In 1805, Britain defeated France’s ships off the southern coast of Spain in the famous Battle of Trafalgar. But by 1807, Napoleon had smashed Russian and Prussian armies and won more land for France.
DEFEAT AND EXILE
In 1808, Napoleon invaded Spain. Spanish fighters put up a fierce resistance. They used guerrilla tactics (surprise attacks and rapid retreats), making it impossible for Napoleon to win.
Worse was to come. In 1812, Napoleon led 500,000 soldiers to invade Russia. Through bitter winter weather, they marched to Moscow, Russia’s capital. But they found themselves stranded. The Russians had set fire to much of the city, destroying food and shelter needed by Napoleon’s troops. Napoleon had to retreat. Over half his men died.
Soon after this loss, Napoleon suffered another defeat at Leipzig, Germany. The countries allied against France forced Napoleon to step down. He was sent into exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba, near Italy, in 1813.
FINAL DEFEAT AT WATERLOO
Napoleon was not a man to give in. In 1815, he escaped from Elba and dashed back to Paris. There, he was greeted by cheering crowds. Napoleon gathered an army and marched north into Belgium to face enemy forces.
The campaign in Belgium ended in disaster. Napoleon’s outnumbered troops met a crushing defeat in the Battle of Waterloo, one of history’s most famous battles.
AFTER WATERLOO
Napoleon spent his last years as a prisoner on the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. He died in 1821. But Napoleon’s influence on France has lasted long after his death. Many of his reforms in law, government, and education still govern French life today.

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