A birthplace, the siege that made a reputation, the palace where a throne was given up, and two islands that were meant to hold the same man — the first of which failed.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born here on 15 August 1769, in the family house on what is now Rue Saint-Charles — fifteen months after Genoa signed Corsica over to France, which is why he was born a French subject at all. The house is a national museum and the city's airport carries his name.
The siege ended on 19 December 1793 when Bonaparte's batteries on the captured promontory drove the allied fleet out of the roadstead. Three days later, aged 24, he was made a brigadier general — the leap that started everything. The port is still France's main Mediterranean naval base.
Napoleon called the palace 'the true home of kings, the house of the ages'. He signed his unconditional abdication on the guéridon in his private salon on 6 April 1814, tried to poison himself a week later, and on 20 April said farewell to his Old Guard in the courtyard that now takes its name from the scene.
Napoleon landed here on 4 May 1814 as sovereign of Elba and lived at the Palazzina dei Mulini above the town until 26 February 1815, when he sailed for France aboard the brig Inconstant — the start of the Hundred Days that ended at Waterloo.
Napoleon was moved into the house on this plateau on 10 December 1815 and died there on 5 May 1821, aged 51, after five and a half years of damp, rats and boredom. France bought the house and the Valley of the Tomb in 1858 for £7,100 and owns them still; the tricolour flies over the place today.
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